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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  30
• Lot Description:
  Tom Roberts
  (1856-1931)
  Miss Minna Simpson (1886)
  oil on canvas
  60.7 x 50.6 cm
• Provenance:
  Mrs James Simpson (nee Lucy Williamson), Melbourne; Mrs Frank Johnson (nee Minna Simpson), Melbourne; By descent; Private Collection, Melbourne; Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Lady Casey, Melbourne, acquired 22 October 1964; By descent; Private Collection; Australian Paintings and Prints, Christie's, Sydney, 14 November 1988, lot 104, illustrated; Private Collection, New South Wales
• Exhibited:
  First Annual Exhibition of the Australian Artists' Association, The Buxton" Art Gallery, Melbourne, 7 September - 2 October 1886, no. 10, illustrated; Nine Portraits by Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, Joshua McClelland Print Room; Melbourne 20-30 October 1964, no. 4; Some Interesting Australians: A Loan Collection of Portraits, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, 8-26 August 1967, no. 1; Tom Roberts, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 5 October - 17 November 1996, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gal
• References:
  James Smith, 'Exhibition of the Australian Artists' Association', The Argus, Melbourne, 7 September 1886, p. 7; Table Talk, Melbourne, 31 August 1888, p. 2; Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856 - 1931: A Catalogue Raisonne, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, Vol. 1, p. 96; vol. 2, plate 28, cat. no. 76; Humphrey McQueen, Tom Roberts, Macmillan, Sydney, 1996, pp. 165, 175; Ron Radford (ed.), Tom Roberts, Art Gallery of South Australia and Art Exhibitions Australia, Adelaide, 1996, pp. 7 (illust
• Estimate:
  A$300,000 - 400,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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