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Thomas Keith Roberts (1909-1998) Watercolor on illustration board , Signed , measures 14" x 21" , w/frame 22" x 29.5" A popular Canadian painter, draftsman, printmaker and educator, Thomas Keith Roberts (aka: Tom Roberts) was born in Toronto, Ontario and died in Mississauga, Ontario (suburb of Toronto). He lived in or near the 'Greater Toronto Area' his whole life. For over three decades, Roberts' works were regularly included in exhibitions with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*, the Ontario Society of Artists*, and the Art Association of Montreal*. He was listed in the Canadian Who's Who books from 1967 until his death in 1998 and his works are in several Canadian museums. His mediums were oils, watercolors, tempera*, acrylics, pencil, charcoal, serigraph* and linocut*. His best known subjects were landscapes, still life, genre*, harbors, forests, urban scenes and rural scenes; and during World War II - army life. Most of the painting locations are in Ontario, Quebec and Canada's eastern Maritime Provinces.
Cutler Bay AuctionsThomas Keith Roberts (1909-1998) Watercolor on illustration board , Signed , measures 14" x 21" , w/frame 22" x 29.5" A popular Canadian painter, draftsman, printmaker and educator, Thomas Keith Roberts (aka: Tom Roberts) was born in Toronto, Ontario and died in Mississauga, Ontario (suburb of Toronto). He lived in or near the 'Greater Toronto Area' his whole life. For over three decades, Roberts' works were regularly included in exhibitions with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*, the Ontario Society of Artists*, and the Art Association of Montreal*. He was listed in the Canadian Who's Who books from 1967 until his death in 1998 and his works are in several Canadian museums. His mediums were oils, watercolors, tempera*, acrylics, pencil, charcoal, serigraph* and linocut*. His best known subjects were landscapes, still life, genre*, harbors, forests, urban scenes and rural scenes; and during World War II - army life. Most of the painting locations are in Ontario, Quebec and Canada's eastern Maritime Provinces.
Cutler Bay AuctionsPlay Time at the Lake
Westbridge Fine Art Auction HouseFarm in Winter Landscape
Westbridge Fine Art Auction HouseThomas Keith Roberts Canadian, (1909-1998) Farm on Milton Creek oil on board signed
Maynards Fine Art & AntiquesThomas Keith Roberts (1909-1998) Watercolor on illustration board , Signed , measures 14" x 21" , w/frame 22" x 29.5"
Cutler Bay AuctionsTOM ROBERTS (1856 - 1931) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL, 1909 oil on canvas 50.5 x 38.0 cm signed and dated lower left: Tom Roberts. / 9. PROVENANCE Private collection Christie’s, London, 10 June 1986, lot 214A (as ‘Portrait of a Girl’) John Schaeffer, Sydney Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 10 August 1998, lot 79 Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, acquired from the above The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 29 August 1998 EXHIBITED Figurative Works from the Cbus Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria 4 August – 2 December 2012 Colour and Movement, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria, 19 February – 9 June 2016 on long term loan to Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria LITERATURE Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 18, 34 (illus.), 231 Cotter, J., Tom Roberts & The Art of Portraiture, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2015, fig. 6.35, pp. 313, 315 (illus.) ESSAY Tom Roberts was a skilled painter of people, able to capture the mood and character of his subjects, in addition to accurately describing their physical likeness. Portraiture makes up more than a third of his painted oeuvre, and while his motivation was sometimes practical – as he once explained to a friend, ‘Portraits pay, …my boy’1 – he was also attuned to its potential historical significance. A leading portrait painter of the late nineteenth century, Roberts’ sitters included prominent public and political figures, the most well-known being Sir Henry Parkes, whose 1892 portrait was hung at the Royal Academy, London the following year, and is now in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Roberts also painted friends and family – note, for example, his various portraits of his wife, Lillie, or Arthur Streeton – his familiarity with these subjects imbuing their portraits with palpable personality and a strong sense of intimacy. Some of Roberts’ most striking portraits depict female subjects and, as Helen Topliss has noted, portraits such as Madame Pfund, c.1887 (National Gallery of Victoria) and Eileen, 1892 (Art Gallery of New South Wales), reveal his love of female personalities and companionship, as well as his aesthetic response to the decorative elements of women’s dress.2 This translated to female children too, with memorable portraits including Blue Eyes and Brown, 1887 and Lily Sterling, c.1888 (both National Gallery of Victoria), the latter a charming depiction of a friend’s young daughter. Roberts had worked in a photographic studio as a young man and the experience he gained there posing sitters and putting them at ease no doubt helped in this context.3 In this 1909 portrait, the young subject looks pensively beyond the painting edge, the silhouette of her profile carefully delineated against a pale background and dominated by the mass of wavy auburn hair. Her youthful complexion is painted with great delicacy and a remarkable sense of realism, pale skin illuminated by soft touches of pink on her cheek and lips, and warm brown eyes. Roberts delights in depicting texture – skin, hair, the fabric of her dress – and the overall feeling of softness in this work recalls another portrait of young sitters, Elizabeth and Carmen Pinschof, 1900 (National Gallery of Victoria), which was drawn in pastel. A beautiful painting, this work typifies what A. G. Stevens described as Roberts’ very particular ‘instinct of accuracy which makes good likenesses, and an instinct of art that makes charming likenesses.’4 1. Roberts quoted in Taylor, G., Those Were the Days, Sydney, 1918, p. 100, cited in Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, p. 20 2. Topliss, H., ‘Portraiture and Nationalism’ in Radford, R., Tom Roberts, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1996, p. 154 3. Lane, T., Entry on Lily Stirling, c.1888 in Tom Roberts, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2015, p. 176 4. Stevens, A. G. cited in Gray, A., ‘Harmonic Arrangements: Tom Roberts’ Painting’, ibid., p. 43 KIRSTY GRANT
Deutscher and HackettROBERTS, Thomas Keith (Canadian 1908-1998) 'A Farm in the Cheltenham Hills' Roberts Gallery, Toronto, label verso. Oil on Board 19x24.5cm
Davidson AuctionsAutumn Birches
Westbridge Fine Art Auction HouseThomas Keith Roberts Canadian (1908-1998) march sunlight - haliburton oil on board signed 16 x 25 in. (40.6 x 63.5 cm)
Maynards Fine Art & AntiquesArtist: Tom Roberts (1909-1998) Canadian Artist Title: The Fishing Fleet at Perce Rock Medium: Vintage Print Provenance: Private Collection, MB Region Fine Art, MB
Region Fine ArtArtist: Tom Roberts (1909-1998) Canadian Artist Title: Village in Winter Medium: Silkscreen/ Serigraph Produced by the Sampson Matthews Company Size: 30 inches x 40 inches Provenance: Gerald Sigvaldason Collection, MB Region Fine Art, MB
Region Fine ArtArtist: Tom Roberts (1909-1998 Canadian) Canadian Artist Title: Aylen Lake Medium: Oil on Masonite Board Size: 12 inches x 18 inches Provenance: Artist's personal label attached Private Collection, Winnipeg, MB Region Fine Art, Gimli, MB
Region Fine ArtArtist: Tom Roberts (1909-1998 Canadian) Canadian Artist Title: Yellow Birch Trees Medium: Oil on Masonite Board Size: 12 inches x 16 inches Provenance: Artist's personal label attached Private Collection, Winnipeg, MB Region Fine Art, Gimli, MB
Region Fine ArtApril Morning, Fraser Valley
Westbridge Fine Art Auction HouseThomas Keith Roberts (Canadian, 1909 - 1998). Church at St. Luce, 1980. Oil on masonite, signed "TOM ROBERTS" l.l., 16" x 26". Titled, signed and dated on verso with a label from Continental Galleries, Montreal, Canada. Frame 25" x 35"
William Smith AuctionsThomas Keith Roberts (Canadian, 1909 - 1998). Mild March Day on the Farm, circa 1980. Oil on masonite, signed "TOM ROBERTS" l.l., 22" x 32". Titled and signed on verso with two labels; the first pertaining to the artist's biography, the second from Continental Galleries, Montreal, Canada. Frame 30" x 40"
William Smith AuctionsThomas Keith Roberts (Canadian, 1909-1998) "Late Winter in the Valley", oil painting on board, signed. Framed. Provenance: Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal (label on verso). Size: 12'' x 15.75'', 30 x 40 cm (board); 20'' x 24'', 51 x 61 cm (frame).
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Maynards Fine Art & AntiquesTHOMAS KEITH ROBERTS (CANADIAN, 1909-1998)AUTUMN DAYOIL ON CANVAS, GLUED TO ON MASONITE; SIGNED LOWER LEFT; SIGNED AND TITLED VERSO20 x 24 in — 50.8 x 61 cmProvenance:Private Collection, OntarioEstimate: $700—800
Waddington'sTHOMAS KEITH ROBERTS (CANADIAN, 1908-1998) THE BLUE HORSEWATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED ‘39 LOWER RIGHT (Sight, 14.5” x 19.8”)Provenance:Estate of Tom RobertsEstimate: $300—400
Waddington'sTHOMAS KEITH ROBERTS (CANADIAN, 1908-1998) WHITE WATER LILIESWATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED 1939 LOWER RIGHT (Sight, 11.3” x 13.8”)Provenance:Estate of Tom RobertsEstimate: $300—400
Waddington'sTHOMAS KEITH ROBERTS (CANADIAN, 1908-1998) YELLOW BUSHES AT HARRISON LAKEWATERCOLOUR; UNSIGNED, TITLED TO ARTIST LABEL VERSO (Sight, 11.8” x 15.5”)Provenance:Estate of Tom RobertsEstimate: $200—300
Waddington'sTHOMAS KEITH ROBERTS (CANADIAN, 1908-1998) QUIDI VIDI HARBOURWATERCOLOUR; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO ARTIST LABEL VERSO (Sight, 10” x 14.3”)Provenance:Estate of Tom RobertsEstimate: $300—400
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