Private collection, Melbourne;

Sotheby’s, The Autumn Auction Series, Sydney, 23/05/1999, Lot No. 603;

Private collection, Sydney

“[My aim is] to give a sincere and truthful representation of a portion of the beauty of nature, and to show the charm of light and shade, which I try and set forth in correct tones so as to give nearly as possible an exact illusion of reality.”
– Clarice Beckett, Twenty Melbourne Painters, 6th annual exhibition catalogue, 1924

Figures on the Beach, Low Tide Beaumaris is an exquisite and highly evocative example of Clarice Beckett’s soft-focus landscape paintings. Originally studying under Frederick McCubbin during the second decade of the twentieth century the young Clarice later enrolled with the renowned tonal painter Max Meldrum. In recent years she has become recognised as one of our most accomplished artists working in Australian Tonalism.

This rare and personal work by Clarice Beckett sensitively captures the artist’s unique vision of the Australian landscape. The present work is of special significance because it was completed at Beaumaris Beach, the artist’s home for many years in bayside Melbourne.

Maningrida Arts & Culture, NT (catalogue number 85-04)

Palya Art, Melbourne

Private Collection, Melbourne

D’Lan Davidson Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne

Private collection, Sydney

Pace Gallery, London;

Private Collection, Sydney

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, US, 25-28 January, 2018

Berlin-based Canadian artist Beth Letain engages with the history of colour and abstraction. While her works feel minimalist compositionally, they are vivid with strong colour painted on white canvas. Letain’s geometric structures are harmonious and rhythmic, referencing Agnes Martin, Mary Heilmann and the Bauhaus theories of colour. This work is of magnificent scale with lashings of oil and rich pigment, so characteristic of the artist’s style. Her works are simple and enduring. 

Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977;

Private Collection, Melbourne

Winter Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, 4 – 14 July, 1977, no. 46

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

His delicate, hand-cut painted aluminium sculptures play with shape and use strong lines and fine detailing to suggest growth, renewal and the connectedness of natural forms.

Ben-David has received numerous awards including the Grande Biennial Prémio at the XIV Biennale Internacional de Arte de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal (2007) and the Tel Aviv Museum prize for sculpture (2005). He was commissioned to make a sculpture for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 following his solo exhibition at the Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou, China (2007). In 2010 Ben-David’s solo show ‘Human Nature’ broke all records for attendance at the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.

Zadok Ben-David recently showed at the Busan Biennale in South Korea, and in a major solo exhibition at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. His works feature in the collections of important public and private institutions in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Israel and Australia.