COASTAL ISLANDS, TASMANIA, c.1925 - 26

Two Important Private Collections: Modern / Traditional
Melbourne
8 December 2021
26

TOM ROBERTS

(1856 - 1931)
COASTAL ISLANDS, TASMANIA, c.1925 - 26

oil on canvas board

18.0 x 25.0 cm

signed indistinctly lower left: ROBERTS

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
Sold for $73,636 (inc. BP) in Auction 66 - 8 December 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Mrs. Frederick McCubbin, Melbourne
Louis McCubbin, Melbourne
Stefan Heysen, Adelaide, c.1960
Theodore Bruce, Adelaide
Private collection, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Private collection, Adelaide

Literature

Topliss, H., Tom Roberts: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, cat. 596, p. 596, vol. II, pl. 228 (illus., as 'Untitled Landscape. Maria Island (?)')