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Twenty Classics of Australian Art - 11 November 2020  |  Melbourne

Lot 42
Clarice Beckett
(1887 – 1935)
ROSE AND GREY, c.1928 – 29

oil on pulpboard

24.5 x 34.5 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 – 20,000


Lot sold: $55,227 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Clarice Beckett
(1887 – 1935)
ROSE AND GREY, c.1928 – 29

oil on pulpboard

24.5 x 34.5 cm

signed lower right: C. Beckett
bears inscription with title verso: B / Grey + Rose

Provenance

Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 April 1976, lot 452
The Estate of Peter Greenham, Melbourne

Exhibited

Clarice Beckett, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, opening 26 November 1929, cat. 6
Homage to Clarice Beckett (1887 – 1935): Idylls of Melbourne and Beaumaris, Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne, 12 November – 1 December 1972, cat. 43 (as ‘Yacht at Sunset’)

We are grateful to Rosalind Hollinrake for her assistance with this catalogue entry.