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Clarice Beckett: Australian artist’s place in global art history cemented in exhibition – ABC News
While Clarice Beckett worked at a small scale depicting seemingly insignificant subject matter, her work is masterful. The largest exhibition of her work yet solidifies…
Imagine if shortly after Mark Rothko’s death, someone who thought they knew better decided to destroy his iconic paintings.
When Australian artist Clarice Beckett died at 48 years of age in 1935, her father burnt a number of her paintings works that the Art Gallery of South Australia’s curator of Australian art Tracey Lock describes as “Rothko-like”.
“I think he really didn’t understand the way she painted and what she did,” says Lock.
“She was going completely against the general grain of what…
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