THE LITTLE BATHER

Important Women Artists
Melbourne
10 November 2021
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CLARICE BECKETT

(1887 - 1935)
THE LITTLE BATHER

oil on board

17.5 x 24.0 cm

signed lower right: C. Beckett
bears inscription on handwritten label attached verso: 24. The Little Bather

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Sold for $73,636 (inc. BP) in Auction 65 - 10 November 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Mrs Hilda Mangan, Melbourne
Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne
Ruth Prowse, Canberra
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014

Exhibited

Ruth Prowse: Thirty Years of Collecting, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1 April – 16 May 2004 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 32)
Clarice Beckett: A collector’s passion, The Ruth Prowse Collection, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 12 July – 28 August 2005, cat. 15 (label attached verso)
Clarice Beckett, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 29 April – 24 May 2014, cat. 18 (illus. in exhibition catalogue pp. 20, 21 (illus.), 45, 46)


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