North Shore (Study for An Autumn Morning, Milson's Point, Sydney) 1888

Tom Roberts (1856-1931)

North Shore (Study for An Autumn Morning, Milson's Point, Sydney) 1888

oil on panel
26.0 x 34.5 cm

dated and inscribed lower left: North Shore 24.3.88

Provenance:

The artist

Acquired from the artist, Mme Nancy Elmhurst Goode, Melbourne

Christie's, Sydney, 5 October 1971, lot 328 (as North Shore)

Private collection

Christie’s, Sydney, 3 October 1972, lot 53 (as Circular Quay)

Professor David Malet Armstrong AO, Sydney

Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne

 

Exhibited:

Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by Tom Roberts, Previous to his Leaving Australia, Society of Artists, Sydney, November 1900, cat.21 (as Circular Quay (Study))

Reference:

Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol.1, p.104, cat.103a (illus. vol.2, pl.45) (as Circular Quay)

Clark, J. & Whitelaw, B., Golden Summers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1985, p.95

Eagle, M., 'Friendly Rivalry: Paintings of Waterside Sydney, 1888 and 1890,' in Lane, T. (ed.), Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pp.106, 303 (note 21)

Gray, A., Tom Roberts, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2015, p.161

Related Works:

An Autumn Morning, Milson’s Point, Sydney 1888, oil on canvas, 46.0 x 76.5 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, Sydney, purchased 1983

Circular Quay, Sydney 1888-98, pencil on paper, 22.5 x 28.5 cm

(sheet, irreg.), National Gallery of Australia collection, Canberra,

purchased 1972

Estimate: $500000 - 700000

Result Hammer: $750000