Clarice Beckett will never know just how strongly her decision to persist with art, despite the indifference of critics during her lifetime, has been vindicated. A week after her auction record was smashed at Deutscher and Hackett, a new record was set for her work at Smith & Singer on Tuesday night. A film crew gathering footage for a documentary on Beckett chose the perfect night for it. Beckett’s The Boat Sheds, fresh to the market and consigned by the artist’s only living descendant, sold for $270,000 (hammer), more than triple the low estimate of $80,000. Beckett’s descendant was in the room watching. Six days earlier, Beckett’s painting The Tan, South Yarra, c.1925, doubled its high estimate at Deutscher and Hackett to sell for $240,000 (hammer).