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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  20 Nov 2019 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Tom Roberts
  (1856-1931)
  The Two Roads to Monbulk 1924
  oil on plywood; frame: original, John Thallon, Melbourne
  44.6 x 58.5 cm
  signed and dated 'Tom Roberts / 24.' lower left
  EXHIBITED: An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Tom Roberts, The Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne, 17-29 September 1924, no. 2, 125 gns (label verso); Loan Exhibition of Pictures from Private Art Galleries of Victoria In Aid of The Lord Mayor's Fund for the Metropolitan Hospitals, Town Hall, Melbourne, 3 November 1930, no. 4; A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Roberts, The Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne, 21 June - 2 July 1932, no. 23; Tom Roberts Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 1947 - January 1948; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February - March 1948, no. 53, 'The Patch, Kallista' (label verso)
• Provenance:
  The Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 17 November 1924; Private Collection, Victoria, by descent from the above
• References:
  Mr. Tom Roberts's' Paintings', The Argus, Melbourne, 17 September 1924, p. 16; 'Mr. Tom Roberts's Paintings', The Australasian, Melbourne, 20 September 1924, p. 46; 'Mr. Tom Roberts's Pictures', The Argus, Melbourne, 23 September 1924, p. 21; Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, Vol. 1, cat. no. 576, p. 207, Vol. 2, plate 223 (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$160,000 - 190,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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