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important fine art auction • melbourne • 16 & 17 april 2008

PART I – 100 important works of art (lots 1-104) •
PART II – australian and international art (lots 105-338) •


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020 TOM ROBERTS
Practising the Minuet
(Miss Hilda Spong), c1893
(1856 - 1931)
oil on canvas
183.0 x 97.0 cm
signed and inscribed lower left:
Tom Roberts / To Hessel Linsley

ESTIMATE: $300,000 - 500,000

PROVENANCE
Probably commissioned by Hilda Spong and gifted by her to Hessel Linsley
Sir Arthur Streeton
Mrs John Lewis (the sitter's niece) 1929
Rudy Komon, Sydney, 1968
Christie's, Sydney, 24 September 1969, lot 58
Owner unknown, 1969
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 20 April 1972, lot 165
The Estate of Pro Hart, Broken Hill, New South Wales

EXHIBITED
Spring Exhibition, Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, September 1893, cat. 274, as 'Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)', at £105

LITERATURE
Sydney Morning Herald, 1 September 1893, p. 6
Croll, R. H., Smike to Bulldog: Letters from Sir Arthur Streeton to Tom Roberts, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1946, p. 37
Spate, V., Tom Roberts, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1972, p. 115
Ingram, T., A Matter of Taste: Investing in Australian Art, Collins, Sydney, 1976, p. 41 & facing p. 112 (illus.)
Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol. I, cat. 204, p. 128 as 'Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)' & vol.II, plate 93 (illus.)
McQueen, H., Tom Roberts, Macmillan, Sydney, 1996, p. 373

RELATED WORKS
Study for Hilda Spong, c1893, pencil on paper, 25.2 x 31.9 cm, sketchbook, V.13, p. 22, (Croll II), Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, in Topliss, vol. I, 204a & cat. XI, p. 247 as 'Dancing figures. Studies for Hilda Spong, c.1893'



 
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