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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 - Lots 1 - 47
  03 May 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 - Lots 48 - 320
• Lot #:
  8
• Lot Description:
  Clarice Beckett
  (1887-1935)
  Untitled (Towards the River) c.1924
  oil on canvas on board
  36 x 44 cm
  Please note: This lot was withdrawn.
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  The softly diffused paintings of Clarice Beckett with their close tonal values capture the essence of city life in Melbourne and specifically that of the bayside suburbs near Beaumaris where she lived. Her works poetically evoke the period in the 20th century between the two World Wars when the advent of the modern age was signified by the motor car, the ubiquitous telegraph pole and Melbourne trams. Clarice Beckett held her first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1923. She had studied briefly at the National Gallery School, but the formative influence on her career came from the tonalist painter Max Meldrum, with whom she studied for one year. However Beckett's subject matter and especially her mastery of the effects of diffuse light on shapes shrouded in mist, sets her apart from her contemporaries, as Rosalind Hollinrake has noted, 'She saw in soft focus and there were no edges to her works. She was concerned with achieving an harmonic atmospheric unity and the fairly consistent lack of brushstrokes makes the paint appear to float on the surface of her canvas.' 1 Frances Lindsay AM 1 Rosalind Hollinrake, Clarice Beckett: politically incorrect, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 1999, P.17
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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