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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  25 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  8
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891-1951)
  Chapman's Pool, 1935
  colour linocut on thin paper printed from four blocks in blue, ochre, Indian red, black
  18.2 x 30.0cm (7 3/16 x 11 13/16in).
  RELATED WORK: Another impression from this edition is held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Study for linocut 'Chapman's Pool', 1934, 23.5 x 33.0cm, Bonhams, Sydney, 14 November 2018, lot 51, now in a private collection
• Provenance:
  Theodore Bruce, Adelaide, 15 June 1982, lot 94; Private collection, Adelaide
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: British Lino-cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 1935, cat. 44 (another example); Contemporary Group, Farmers Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 1935, cat. 80; Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 7 - 23 July 1938, cat. 36 (another example); Dorrit Black (retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 57 (another example) as 'Chapman's Pool, Dorset'; Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 1 (another example); Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 62 (another example); Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example) REFERENCES: Art in Australia, Third Series, November 1938, p. 63 (illus., another example); Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, pl. 30, pp. 69 (illus., another example), 132; Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Adlershot, 1995, pp. 159, cat. DB27 (illus. another example); Gordon Samuel & Nicola Perry, The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Linocuts of the Grosvenor School, Lund Humphries, London, 2002, p. 70; Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p.158 and p.203 (illus. another example) "Chapman's Pool, a popular bathing spot Black visited in July 1934 while on a sketching trip at Worth Matravers on the Dorset coast with Claude Flight and Edith Lawrence".1 1. Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 203
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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