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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  20 Nov 2019 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  Tom Roberts
  (1856-1931)
  She-Oak and Sunlight (1889)
  oil on wood
  30.5 x 30 cm
• Provenance:
  Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
• Exhibited:
  The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, Buxton's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 17 August 1889, no. 19, 2 gns; Heidelberg Art Exhibition, Ivanhoe Hall, 16 November 1934, no. 25, 'The Sheoaks'; Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 31 March - 8 July 2007, no. 9.24, illustrated
• References:
  The Evening Standard, Melbourne, 17 August 1889, p. 1; Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonne, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, Vol. 1, cat. no. 171, 'The She-Oak c. 1889-91', pp. 43 (illustrated), 120, Vol. 2, plate 31; Terence Lane (ed.), Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 170 (illustrated), 330-331
• Estimate:
  A$220,000 - 280,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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