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Dorrit Black (1891-1951), The Quartette 1936

Sold for A$34,000 at Gibson's on May 25, 2025.

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DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) The Quartette 1936 colour linocut signed, titled and editioned on margin: Dorrit Black. / The Quartette. 4/50 15 x 24cm PROVENANCE Estate of Edith Lawrence, London Thence by descent Private collection, United Kingdom Tennants Auctioneers, United Kingdom Private collection, Sydney Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, Important Australian + International Fine Art, Melbourne, 27 November 2019, Lot 2 Works from the late Andrée Harkness Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED Lino-Cuts 1936 (Seventh Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts), Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 19 (another example) An Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 40 (another example) Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 23 (another example) Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 13 June – 7 September 2014 (another example, as 'The String Quartette') Modern Australian Women: Works from a Private Collection, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, October 2018 - March 2019 LITERATURE 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) Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 102 (illus.) 204 (illus., another example) Andrée Harkness, Modern Australian Women Artists: The Andrée Harkness Collection, Amaled Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2020, pp. 152, 159 (illus.) (a copy of this book accompanies this work)

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