MOONRISE, BEAUMARIS (VERSO: SUNSET AND TREES)

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
21 April 2021
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CLARICE BECKETT

(1887 – 1935)
MOONRISE, BEAUMARIS (VERSO: SUNSET AND TREES)

oil on board

18.5 x 21.0 cm

bears inscription verso: CLARICE BECKETT / HM031

Estimate: 
$18,000 – 24,000
Sold for $41,727 (inc. BP) in Auction 64 - 21 April 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne, purchased in the 1970s
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 30 April 2002, lot 156
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 20 April 2011, lot 95
Private collection, Sydney

 

Catalogue text

The following excerpt was published in ‘In Town and Out’, Herald, Melbourne, 19 October 1932, p.8 (unknown author):

‘Though I had biked, hiked and motored along Beach Road around Beaumaris Bay a hundred times of more, I did not fully realise the beauty of the place till l looked at Miss Clarice Beckett’s exhibition of oil paintings at the Athenaeum today. The Bendigo girl, pupil of Max Meldrum, has caught cliff and water in all moods and light and season, revealing there is not one Beaumaris Bay but a score.’