JARRET, DORA (1903-1984)

“Sketch Of Joan” (c.1940)
watercolour & pencil
40 x 30cm
Signed lower left
*private collection, Sydney
 
Jarret was an important Australian painter, teacher, illustrator, graphic artist and cartoonist. She studied in Paris in the early 1920s under Andre L’hôte, and later in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo. She was close friends with fellow students, Grace Cossington Smith, Alison Rehfisch and George Duncan. She was also an acquaintance and inspiration for Norman Lindsay. In the 1920s Jarret exhibited with the Royal Art Society, had work in the Australian Art Society’s first exhibition (1927) and was a regular exhibitor with the Australian Watercolour Institute. She showed watercolours, travel sketches and linocuts; the AGNSW purchased "An Italian Bypath". This work depicts her cousin, Joan Barnes, and was never intended for sale by the artist.