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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2019 ~ 7pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  2
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891 – 1951)
  The Quartette, c.1935
  colour linocut; edition: 4/50
  15.0 x 24.0 cm
  signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image
  REFERENCES: North, I."The Art of Dorrit Black", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L30, pl. 19, pp. 73 (illus., another example, as ‘The String Quartette, 1936’), 132; 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. DB30, p. 160 (illus., another example, dated as 1936); Lock-Weir, T.", Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 102 (illus.) 204 (illus., another example)
• Provenance:
  Estate of Edith Lawrence, London; Thence by descent; Private collection, United Kingdom; Tennants Auctioneers, United Kingdom; Private collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  "Lino-Cuts 1936 (Seventh Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts)", Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 19 (another example); "Dorrit Black", Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 40 (another example); Contemporary Art Society, 1952, cat. 23; "Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 13 June – 7 September 2014 (another example, as ‘The String Quartette’)
• Estimate:
  A$25,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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