DUTCH HOUSES, c.1929
DORRIT BLACK
colour linocut on paper
27.0 x 20.0 cm (image)
29.0 x 25.0 cm (sheet)
bears inscription in margin: DUTCH HOUSES L10
Private collection, Adelaide
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
The Estate of James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1999
Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 30 August 2017, lot 37
Private collection, Melbourne
British Lino–cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 23 July – 23 August 1930, cat. 78 (another example)
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 20 September 1930, cat. 30 (another example)
British Lino–cuts, Shanghai Art Club, Shanghai, 2 – 4 May 1931, cat. 60 (another example)
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 25 October – 3 November 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, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 – 1 March 1993; National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993; and Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 20 (another example)
The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 7
Graphica Britannica, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand, 13 May 2005 – 8 October 2006 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
In Modern Times, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand, 18 December 2015 – 11 September 2016 (another example)
One O’Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand, 7 December 2024 – 11 May 2025 (another example)
’Art & linoleum cut out pictures with umbrella ribs’, Sun, Sydney, 16 March 1930, p. 8 (illus., another example, incorrectly titled)
Flight, C., The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing, B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1934, pl. XII, no. 10, p. 61 (illus.)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, MacMillan and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979, cat. L10, pl. 9, pp. 39 (illus., another example) 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., another example)
Lock–Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 52, 55 (illus., another example), 200 (illus., another example)