THE STRING QUARTETTE, c.1935

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Sydney
20 September 2017
37

DORRIT BLACK

(1891 – 1951)
THE STRING QUARTETTE, c.1935

colour linocut on thin oriental wove paper

15.0 x 24.0 cm

edition 1/50

signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $48,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 51 - 20 September 2017, Sydney
Provenance

The Estate of Edith Lawrence
Tennants, United Kingdom, 25 March 2017, lot 747
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

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)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, p. 204 (illus., another example)