Morning Ride

Details

Artist

Clarice Beckett

Title

Morning Ride

Medium

oil on canvas on pulpboard

Size

29.5 x 35 cm

Stock Number

214026

Sold This artwork has been sold. Please contact us for similar artworks.

Provenance

Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. 1975

Australian and European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Christies, Melbourne, 27 August 1997, lot 228

Sandra Powell and Andrew King, Melbourne

The Australian Art Collection of Sandra Powell and Andrew King, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 19 March 2014, lot 3

Corporate Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Homage to Clarice Beckett: Idylls of Melbourne and Beaumaris, Rosalind Humphries Galleries, Melbourne, 30 October - 20 November 1971, no. 20

Clarice Beckett 1887 - 1935, The Macquarie Galleries, King Street, Sydney, 5 - 17 February 1975, no. 27

Australian Women Artists Between the Wars, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 March - 25 April 2015

Further Information

Beckett was renowned for her innovative compositions, her remarkable poetic lyricism and the dramatic intensity she was able to create. She was able to find ample subject matter for her distinctive paintings from the everyday world around her, such as here where the depiction of the trees and telegraph poles are more distinct than the shadowy figure by the road or on horseback. Beckett’s use of soft dissolving edges, a difficult technical feat employed to create atmosphere, is characteristic of her modernist style. Beckett's modernism lies in her minimalist aesthetic and her ability to arouse an emotional response with her images.