TOM ROBERTS
1856-1931

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

TOM ROBERTS

1856-1931
Miss Minna Simpson (1886)

oil on canvas
60.7 x 50.6 cm

• Lot Sold $800,000 (Hammer Price)
• $976,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

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 Gallery, Hobart, 30 November 1996 - 27 January 1997, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 February - 6 April 1997, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 April - 1 June 1997, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 11 June - 27 July 1997, no. 12, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

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 (illustrated), 149 (illustrated), 196
Bruce James, 'Portrait of an Artist', The Australian's Review of Books, Sydney, Vol. 1, Issue 4, December 1996 - January 1997 (supplement to The Australian, 11 December 1996), pp. 14 (illustrated), 15
David Hansen, 'The National Confectioner', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 1997, p. 50