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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art including works from the collections of Joan Clemenger AO + Peter Clemenger AO Reg Grundy AC OBE + Joy
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  70
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891 - 1951)
  Corner of The Garden, c.1936
  colour linocut on paper, edition: 2/50
  26.0 x 31.0 cm (image); 28.5 x 35.0 cm (sheet)
  signed in image with artist’s monogram; signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Corner of the Garden 2/50 Dorrit Black
  EXHIBITED: Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 – 28 March 1936, cat. 26 (another example); British Lino–cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 39 (another example); Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 63 (another example, as ‘The Garden’); Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 20 (another example, as ‘The Garden’); Exhibitions of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 36 (another example, as ‘The Garden’); Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years 1840 – 1940, George Paton and Ewing Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2 – 27 September 1973; and touring, cat. 10 (another example, as ‘Garden’); Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, and touring, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 60 (another example); Claude Flight and His Followers. The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 28 (another example); Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 33 (another example); Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example); Spowers and Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022 (another example)
• Provenance:
  Estate of Edith Lawrence, London; Thence by descent; Private collection, London; Bonhams, London, 16 December 2021, lot 23; Private collection, Sydney
• References:
  Related Work/s: Study for Corner of the Garden, c.1936, watercolour on paper, 28.0 x 38.5 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: ‘Art Exhibition. Miss Dorrit Black’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 18 March 1936, p. 12; Burke, J., Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years 1840 – 1940, George Paton and Ewing Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1973, cat. 10, pp. 23, 37 (illus., another example, as ‘The Garden’); North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Macmillan, Melbourne and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L.32, pl. 19, pp. 73 (illus., another example), 132; Burke, J., Australian Women Artists: 1840 – 1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, pl. 12, p. 96 (illus., another example), 162; Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB 32, p. 161 (illus., another example); Lock–Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 204 (illus., another example); Samuel, G. (ed.), Cutting Edge. Modernist British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, pp. 50 – 51, 70, 75, 115 (illus., another example); Noordhuis – Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers and Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 52 (illus., another example), 94
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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