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Australian + International Fine Art - 7 May 2024 - 14 May 2024  | 

Lot 27
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)



Estimate:
$12,000 – $16,000


Lot sold: $19,636 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

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

Provenance

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)