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Clarice Beckett: Australian artist s place in global art history cemented in exhibition
By Hannah Reich for The Art Show
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The Art Gallery of South Australia s Clarice Beckett exhibition positions Beckett as an international master of modernism. (Supplied: AGSA/Saul Steed)
Imagine if shortly after Mark Rothko s death, someone who thought they knew better decided to destroy his iconic paintings. 
When Australian artist Clarice Beckett died at 48 years of age in 1935, her father burnt a number of her paintings works that the Art Gallery of South Australia s curator of Australian art Tracey Lock describes as Rothko-like . 
I think he really didn t understand the way she painted and what she did, says Lock. ....

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