Clarice Beckett paintings

Clarice Beckett

Australia 1887-1935

Not titled (Seascape with two pink roofs) c 1933

Naarm/Melbourne

oil on cardboard

Gift of Mrs Hilda Mangan 1972 1972.603

Clarice Beckett

Australia 1887-1935

Not titled (Red roofs with sea in distance) c 1919-1935 Naarm/Melbourne

oil on cardboard

Gift of Mrs Hilda Mangan 1972 1972.608

Clarice Beckett

Australia 1887-1935

Not titled (Landscape with sea in distance)

c 1919-1935

Naarm/Melbourne

oil on cardboard

Gift of Mrs Hilda Mangan 1972 1972.606

Beckett often returned to subjects and scenes - in this case the pink and red rooftops that punctuate the view over Beaumaris Bay. The signed work among the group is arguably the most resolved, its pitched roofs portrayed as a swathe of colour that corresponds with a calm stretch of the sea.

Writing for The Age in 1995, the critic Bruce James noted that Beckett's paintings are 'evocations that build like musical phrases towards a greater and more compelling whole'. With this in mind, one can witness in this trio of paintings the development and expression of a particular part of her artistic vocabulary.

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