Portrait of Miss C (Alice Crawford) 1914

Tom Roberts (1856-1931)

Portrait of Miss C (Alice Crawford) 1914

oil on canvas on board
61.0 x 51.0 cm

signed and dated lower left: Tom Roberts ‘14

Provenance:

Private collection

Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 17 April 1989, lot 385

Private collection, Perth

Exhibited:

Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 30 March - 17 April 1920, cat.29

On loan to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1920 (label attached verso)

Lionel Lindsay recommended the purchase of this work to the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Reference:

'Mr Roberts's Paintings,' The Argus, Melbourne, 30 March 1920, p.8

'Sundry Shows,' The Bulletin, Sydney, 8 April 1920, vol.41, no.2095, p.52

McCulloch, A., The Golden Age of Australian Painting: Impressionism and the Heidelberg School, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1969, p.88

Topliss, H., Tom Roberts, A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol.1, p.190, cat.471 (illus. vol.2, pl.197)

Estimate: $35000 - 45000

Result Hammer: $32000