WATTLE AT SHERBROOKE, c.1923

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
3 May 2023
75

CLARICE BECKETT

(1887 - 1935)
WATTLE AT SHERBROOKE, c.1923

oil on pulpboard

36.0 x 30.5 cm

signed lower left: C. Beckett
bears inscription with title on gallery label verso: CLARICE BECKETT / “WATTLE AT SHERBROOK [sic.]”

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Sold for $27,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 74 - 3 May 2023, Melbourne
Provenance

The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne (partial label attached verso)
Private collection, acquired from the above in 1975
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 26 July 1989, lot 42 (as ‘Wattle at Sherbrook’ [sic.])
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 8 November 1989, lot 285A (as ‘Wattle at Sherbrook’ [sic.])
Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 7 May 1990, lot 65
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Possibly: Paintings by Miss Clarice Beckett, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 5 – 20 June 1923, cat. 17 (as ‘Dead Tree, Sherbrooke’)
Clarice Beckett, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 5 – 17 February 1975, cat. 26 (as ‘Wattle at Sherbrook’ [sic.])