A Windy Day, Dorset c1921

Tom Roberts (1856-1931)

A Windy Day, Dorset c1921

oil on canvas on board
30.5 x 44.5 cm

signed lower left: Tom Roberts

bears inscription verso: Landscape in Dorset, England. Tom Roberts

Provenance:

Collection of Mr William Grant Buckle, Sydney

Thence by descent, private collection, Perth

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 21 November 2006, lot 20

Private collection, Melbourne

Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2009, lot 62

Private collection, United States of America

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Tom Roberts Retrospective Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 1947 - January 1948; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February - March 1948, cat.75

John Brackenreg at Wales House Gallery, Sydney, June 1962, cat.36

Reference:

Letter from Tom Roberts to Lillie Roberts, 22 June 1921 and 21 August 1921, private collection, Melbourne

Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol.I, p.199, cat.525; vol.II (illus. pl.213)

Estimate: $20000 - 30000