Clarice Beckett Images 'Yellow Leaves, Alexandra Avenue' Framing:Unframed

Clarice Beckett Images 'Yellow Leaves, Alexandra Avenue' Framing:UnframedDespite being heralded as a visionary of Australian art, Clarice Beckett led a small life. She never married, caring for her invalid mother in the Bayside suburb of Beaumaris before her premature death at age forty eight. Posthumously, her father destroyed 200 of her works that he considered unfinished or not good enough. The remaining 2000 were stored in an open sided shed near Benalla, only to be discovered decades later; by then only 379 were

Carleton College Library

initialed and dated in first panel - 'CB 24-10-85'

Sebastian Smee wrote that he is singular: “there is nobody really like him and important… his commitment unmistakable

Paper Size: 75 x 56 cm

as well as a postmodern aesthetic

A white cat reappears throughout Charles Blackman’s oeuvre — a symbol of innocence

Raw and intimate

Dimensions: 73 x 54 x 6 cm

There are no tears to paper margin or disruption to the image

Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm

Cast in pale greys and ochres with pops of marigold

Dimensions: 64 x 95 x 2 cm