Clarice Beckett is recognised as one of Australia’s most talented modernist painters of the early 20th century, yet she did not enjoy great acclaim or sales of her work in her lifetime. Her soft-focus landscape and still life paintings are now highly sought after, enduring as some of the finest examples of Australian tonalism, with its scientific focus on tonal values, light and shade as the most …

Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibitions

Possibly Clarice Beckett Memorial Exhibition, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 4 - 16 May 1936, cat.5