Tom Roberts
(1856 - 1931)
SHERBROOKE FOREST, c.1924
oil on canvas on plywood panel
12.5 x 20.5 cm
31.5 x 48.0 cm (frame)
bears inscription verso: 422/D
signed with initials lower left: TR
Estimate:
$12,000 - $16,000
Sold:
$19,636 (inc. BP)
lot details
31.5 x 48.0 cm (frame)
signed with initials lower left: TR
Mrs F.E. Fawcett, Sherbrooke, Victoria, a gift from the artist
Thence by descent
Mrs Michael Duggan (nee Fawcett), Victoria
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, by 1973
Private collection, Melbourne
Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 April 1986, lot 214N (as ‘Sherbrooke Forest, c.1910’)
Private collection
E. J. Ainger Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 29 April 2018, lot 621 (as ‘Sherbrooke Forest, c.1910’)
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Winter Exhibition 1973: Recent Acquisitions, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 18 July – 2 August 1973, cat. 14 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Literature
probably: Spate. V., ‘Catalogue of Tom Roberts’ works’, MA Thesis, Tom Roberts, Melbourne University, Victoria, 1961, cat. 402
Topliss, H., Tom Roberts, 1856 – 1931: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol. I, p. 208, cat. 586, vol. II (illus. pl. 226)