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The Spiritual Modernist
Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
Victoria Perin
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Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
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