DAVID BESCHI
DAVID BESCHI
17 JUNE – 30 JULY 2023
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Photo: Geoff White
DAVID BESCHI
It is a great privilege to unveil this collection of new David Beschi watercolour paintings, in this, his 83rd year.
David’s paintings typically feature charming, timeless, everyday scenes, with delicate landscapes providing a wonderful contrast against his more animated and whimsical portrayals with people. His deceptively simple paintings are characterized by a gestural approach, where intuitive control enables him to blend limited detail with intriguing levels of obscurity. His name is synonymous with a restrained palette of muted umbers, warm greys and soft-hued washes, with an occasional, inspired splash of colour. These skillfully executed new paintings offer a glimpse of a lifetime of memories from this private painter.
Sketching has always been at the essence of David’s practice and he has close to 60 sketchbooks, plus countless restaurant napkins, envelopes, backs of bills and scraps of paper with jottings, doodles, colour notes and musings. This provides the stimulus for his art and the paintings in this new exhibition, like others beforehand, are not contrived, but truly inspired by this precious resource; a life’s work.
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6 Sand Storm, Morocco watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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The North Sea watercolour on
x 30cm
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Snowstorm,
paper 42cm
$3250
8 Stand of Trees near Morpeth watercolour on paper 18cm x 38cm $2750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
9 Honeymoon Lookout, Katoomba watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3000 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
10 Flowers with Hawthorn watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
11 Coal Loaders off Newcastle II watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
12 Surfers and the Rising Moon watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Storm, Blue Mountains watercolour on paper
x 74cm
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Snow
50cm
$4500
14 On the Edge watercolour on paper 38cm x 28cm $2750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
15 Day Trip to Paris watercolour on
18cm x 36cm
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paper
$3250
16 Moored Yatchs, Evening Light watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
17 Clearing Rain near Bathurst watercolour on paper
x 38cm
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29cm
$3250
18 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220 Ships off Newcastle watercolour on paper 56cm x 76cm $5000
19 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220 Deep Winter, Blue Mountains watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $2750
20 The Falls, Blue Mountains watercolour on paper 56cm x 20cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
21 Evening near Byron Bay watercolour on paper 47cm x 56cm $4500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
22 Free as Birds watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3000 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
23 Evening Light, Lake Windermere watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3000 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
24 A Sudden Squall watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $2750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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watercolour on paper 40cm x 38cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
The Duck Pond
26 Deep Winter, Blackheath watercolour on paper 26cm x 28cm $2250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
27 Shopping in the Rain, Sydney watercolour on paper 38cm x 28cm $3500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
28 Clearing Rain near Newry Bar watercolour on paper 30cm x 41cm $3250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
29 Morning Mist, Blackheath watercolour on paper 38cm x 56cm $3750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
30 Wheatfield, Bathurst watercolour on paper 42cm x 30cm $3000 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Sydney to Hobart watercolour on paper 29cm x 50cm
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Racing,
$3500
32 Moonlight watercolour on paper 38cm x 28cm $2750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
33 Magical Autumn watercolour on paper
x 38cm
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28cm
$2500
34 Sunday in Australia watercolour on paper 41cm x 38cm $3750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
35 The Evening Star watercolour on paper 27cm x 22cm $2750 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
36 The Race watercolour on paper 37cm x 28cm $3250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
37 Time Passes watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3000 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
38 Traders Meeting, Tangiers watercolour on paper 28cm x 38cm $3250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
39 Broken Tree near Bathurst watercolour on paper 26cm x 28cm $2250 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
40 Sydney to Hobart watercolour on paper 28cm x 28cm $2500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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Evening, White Cliffs of Dover watercolour on paper
25cm x 38cm
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$2500
42 Pond Life watercolour on paper 54cm x 74cm $4500 e. info@lostbeargallery.com.au t. 02 4782 1220
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BEAR GALLERY Lost Bear Gallery 98 Lurline Street, Katoomba NSW 2780 Ph. +612 4782 1220 Open from 10am daily info@lostbeargallery.com.au lostbeargallery.com.au Published: 15 June 2023 Photography & Design: Geoff White
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DAVID BESCHI
Exhibition
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