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SPECIAL GROUP - BLACK, BYRNE, GIBBONS, GOODE-SMITH & NORTON |
LARGER IMAGES HAVE BEEN ARCHIVED. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR REQUEST TO OUR GALLERY.
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143 Dorrit Black The Lawn Mower, c.1932. (1) Colour linocut, signed in pencil below image lower right, titled & numbered 9/50 in pencil lower left, 19.9 x 13.2cm. (2) Gouache & water-colour, 19.7 x 13cm. The Pair $30,000 |
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(1) One of Black's most important and desirable images, which together with the gouache and other studies form a unique group. The figure pushing the mower is believed to be the artist herself (North, L17). North, #L17. Coppel, #DB18. | |
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(2) Verso is pencil study for Dutch
Peasant (20.8 x 20.2cm, foxing) (see North, #PE4). In the margins
are: a small pencil Study for Still Life after Gleizes (5 x 4.8cm)
and two designs for posters for Black's Modern Art Centre, Margaret
Street, Sydney, c.1932: (1) Linocut, 5.3 x 4.9cm (top of image,
turned). Not in Coppel. (2) Pencil study (for the linocut), 15.6
x 4.7cm (right of image). |
The Pair $30,000 |
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144 Dorrit Black The Wool Quilt Makers, c.1940-41. (1) Colour linocut, monogrammed in the block upper left, 23.4 x 31.6cm. (2) Watercolour & gouache, 16.9 x 22.7cm. One of Black's cousins was a volunteer for a group of South Australian women who made quilts for the war effort in England (North, L40). The Pair $30,000 |
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(1) A few colour proofs exist outside the edition of 50. North, #L40. Coppel, #DB42. | |
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(2) Study for the linocut. Verso:
(Study for a Seated Nude), pencil, approx. 24 x 21cm. Pasted over half this
image is: Aboriginal Legend of Creation - Adelaide Children's
Hospital, 1945, pencil study for the mural in the X-ray &
waiting room of Adelaide Children's Hospital, 9.2 x 18.6cm.The
mural reproduced: North, p. 96. The mural was destroyed some
years later during redecoration. (North, p.94). |
The Pair $30,000 |
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145 Harold Byrne Night in St Mary's, 1926. (1) Drawing, 30 x 13.9cm. (2) Etching & aquatint, numbered 11/35, titled and signed, 30.9 x 12.7cm. Mounted together. |
The Pair $650 |
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146 Gladys Gibbons (Lovers), c.1929. (1) Linocut, signed lower right, 22.7 x 18.1cm. (2) Watercolour, signed lower right, 21.5 x 16.5. Gibbons was a student of Thea Proctor in the late 1920s. She is primarily recognised as a printmaker. This pair is indeed rare, as her watercolours seldom appear on the market. |
The Pair $4,500 |
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147 Walter M. Goode-Smith Wheat Silos, White Bay, Sydney, (2), c.1928. (i) Drawing, titled, 25.3 x 33.6cm. (ii) Etching, titled, 27.5 x 35.5cm. |
The Pair $690 |
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148 Frank Norton HMAS Yarra Ready for Launching, 1935. (1) Etching, signed, 11.3 x 7.6cm and (2) Drawing, signed, 19.8 x 15cm. |
The Pair $1,500 |
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