CLARICE BECKETT (1887–1935)

Screenprint On Paper

Title: Bathing Boxes

Image Size: 44 x 55

Frame Size: [UNFRAMED]

Signature Details: Titled And Editioned Below Image; Inscribed With Clarice Beckett Images Seal. (Work Of Art Illustrated Is A Representative Work From The Edition. Any Number From The Edition May Be Supplied.)

Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity

Condition: Very Good

Despite Being Heralded As A Visionary Of Australian Art, Clarice Beckett Led A Small Life. She Never Married, Caring For Her Invalid Mother In The Bayside Suburb Of Beaumaris Before Her Premature Death At Age Forty-Eight. Posthumously, Her Father Destroyed 200 Of Her Works That He Considered Unfinished Or €Œnot Good Enough”. The Remaining 2000 Were Stored In An Open-Sided Shed Near Benalla, Only To Be Discovered Decades Later; By Then Only 379 Were Salvageable, The Rest Laid To Rest By Bad Weather And Possums. For Critic John Mcdonald, This Was €Œamong The Great Disasters Of Australian Art History”. Indeed, Beckett’S Work Represents Some Of The Most Poignant In Australia’S Art Canon. Favouring Early Morning And Evening, She Painted Melbourne’S Suburbs As Though They Contained A Universe Of Meaning. Works Like 'Bathing Boxes' Are Hazy And Immediate €“ A Reflection Of How It Feels To Succumb To One’S Senses. While Aesthetically Minimal, A Metaphysical Dimension Lingers, A Quiet Depth Of Feeling That Is Nothing Short Of Miraculous. In 2021, The Art Gallery Of South Australia Held A Major Retrospective Of Beckett’S Work. Mcdonald Visited Three Times, Irrevocably Moved. He Wrote That If The Same Exhibition Was At The Tate Modern Or The Museum Of Modern Art, Beckett Would Be €Œhailed As A Figure Of World Renown”. If Only It Wasn’T For Her Family Disapproval. What Her Work Teaches However, In Its Assiduous Reverence Of The Everyday, Is That Dignity Exists Even In The Smallest Lives. She Caught The Eternal In The Temporal. For Collectors Of Important Modernist And Female Artists, Beckett Is A Gift. This Work Is A Screenprint Rendition Of An Original Painting, Printed By Master Printmaker Michelle Perry At Marnling Press And Published By Clarice Beckett Images. Perhaps You Also Feel Moved By The Streets You Walk. '

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