Lot 46

Gifted to the artist's niece
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne

Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, p. 165 (illus.)
"[The Air Travel series] show Black's emotional response to the land. Inspired by an aircraft trip to North Queensland soon after the Second World War, she records the contrasting organic and ordered formations of the natural world vividly apparent from the air: two depict pristine landforms (free-form coastal mud flats and mountain ranges); and two are ordered agricultural landscapes (man-made palm and pineapple plantations)." p.164

Dorrit initially studied printmaking under Claude Flight at London's Grosvenor School of Art, alongside fellow print-maker Ethel Spowers. By the late 1940's, however Dorrit had developed her own experimental technique, using a mixture of rolled colour and brushed on, rather like the Japanese, but against the advice of Flight.
This work is the second in a series of four linocuts Dorrit produced from her "Air Travel" series. This work has never before been seen at public auction.