Lot 202
The Castle, Taormina c.1928-29
colour linocut, ed. 5/50
initialled in plate lower right: DB
20 x 26cm
Estimate $8,000 - $12,000
Sotheby's, Sydney, 17 November, 1988, lot 142
(label verso)
First Exhibition of Linocuts, The Redfern Gallery, London 1929, cat. no. 41
A Group of Seven, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1930, cat. no. 26
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Artist's Society, Adelaide 1952, cat. no. 9
Dorrit Black Collection, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney 1999, cat. no. 3
Out of the Darkness: Prints and Drawings from the University of Western Australia Art Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth 2010
Dorrit Black: Retrospective Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide 2011, cat. no. 15
'Miss Dorrit Black's Pictures', The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 1930, p. 7
Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 50, 152, 200 [illus.]
NOTE:
This particular work was exhibited in the groundbreaking First Exhibition of Linocuts at The Redfern Gallery in London in 1929 (another example), which included seminal works from Grosvenor School Artist's Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, curated by Claude Flight. Another version of this print is also in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
The Estate of Colin Lanceley
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8101
6:30pm - 16 November 2015
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills, NSW
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