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:
$73,636 (inc. BP)
lot details
bears inscription on handwritten label attached verso: 24. The Little Bather
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.