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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Works of Art from the Estate of the Late James O. Fairfax AC
• Sale Date:
  30 Aug 2017 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  37
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891 – 1951)
  Dutch Houses, c.1929
  colour linocut; edition unknown
  27.0 x 20.5 cm
  EXHIBITED: British Linocuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 1930, cat. 78 (another example) ; Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 September 1930, cat. 30 (another example) ; British Lino-cuts, Shanghai Art Club, Shanghai, 1931, cat. 60 (another example); Dorrit Black (retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 60 (another example); 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1981, cat. 17 (another example); Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1982 – 1 March 1983; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993 and Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 20 (another example); The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 7 (label attached verso); Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Adelaide; Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney ; The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales and Bridgestar Pty Ltd, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1999
• References:
  North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, MacMillan and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979, cat. L10, pl. 9, pp. 39 (illus.) 41, 131; Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB8, p. 154 (illus.) ; Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 52, 55 (illus.), 200
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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