DOROTHEA (DORRIT) FOSTER BLACK (1891-1951)

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THE QUARTETTE, C1935

colour linocut on thin oriental wove paper, printed from three blocks in brown, yellow, black

15.0 x 24.2 cm

edition: 4/50

titled, numbered and signed below image: The Quartette 4/50 Dorrit Black

Provenance:

The Estate of Edith Lawrence (Edith Lawrence was the life-partner of Claude Flight. Flight founded the Grosvenor School of Modern Art with Iain MacNab, Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, and taught there from 1926-1930. The Grosvenor School artists include Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews, Eileen Mayo, Lill Tschudi, Ethel Spowers, Dorrit Black, and Eveline Symes.)

 

DOROTHEA (DORRIT) FOSTER BLACK (1891-1951)

SOLD WORKS

UNTITLED (PORTRAIT STUDY) c1930

 

pencil on paper
36.0 x 23.0 cm

Related work: DORRIT BLACK, Not titled (Portrait Study)c1930, watercolour and pencil on paper, image size: 36.0 x 22.8 cm, signed with artist's initials lower right: DB., inscribed below image: Myra. I don't approve of your views on birth control. I was brought up differently.' National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

 

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