COAST OF CORNWALL, 1919

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2013
82

TOM ROBERTS

(1856 - 1931)
COAST OF CORNWALL, 1919

oil on wood panel

13.0 x 20.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: TR 19
incised lower left: 4/19
plaque attached verso: CORNWALL COAST / T. ROBERTS 1919
bears inscription verso: by Tom Roberts / part of (Cornwall) Coast

Estimate: 
$20,000 - 30,000
Provenance

Mr Robert Hogarth, 1920
Private collection, Tasmania
On loan to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Theodore Bruce, Adelaide, 30 July 2002, lot 78 (as 'Cornwall Coast')
Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited

Tom Roberts, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 30 March – 17 April 1920, cat. 48, 12 gns

Literature

Roberts, T., Souvenir: Exhibition of Paintings, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, Melbourne, 1920, cat. 48
Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856 – 1931: A Catalogue raissoné , Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol. 1, pp. 193–194, cat. 488
McQueen, H., Tom Roberts, Macmillan, Sydney, 1996, p. 600