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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2021 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  1
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891-1951)
  The Castle, Taormina, c.1928-29
  colour linocut on cream wove paper, printed from five blocks in yellow ochre, blue, green, red and brown
  22.5 x 28.5cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4in) (22.5 x 36.5cm sheet)
  initialled in image lower right: 'D.B.'
  RELATED WORK: Another impression from this edition is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Provenance:
  The Estate of the Artist, Adelaide: Ruth Goble, the artist's niece; thence by descent; Private collection, New South Wales
• References:
  'Miss Dorrit Black's Pictures', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 September 1930, p. 7; 'Art & linoleum cut out pictures with umbrella ribs', The Sun, Sydney, 16 March 1930, p. 40 (illus., another example); Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp.50, 152, 200 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: First Exhibition of linocuts, The Redfern Gallery, London 1929, cat. 41 (another example); A Group of Seven, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1930, cat. 26 (another example); Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Artist's Society, Adelaide 1952, cat. 9 (another example); Dorrit Black Collection, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney 1999, cat. 3 (another example); Out of the Darkness: Prints and Drawings from the University of Western Australia Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth 2010 (another example); Dorrit Black: Retrospective Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide 2011, cat. 15 (another example); Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 18,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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