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This lively and evocative portrait of Roberts by his friend Charles Conder is a rare work produced during the artist's brief Australian years (1884–90). Roberts is depicted in a relaxed and characteristic pose, on a modernist scale. The playful zig-zagged background – based on a surveyor's chain, referring to the young artist's early employment in Sydney – prefigures Conder's decorative style, characteristic of his later European work, as well as echoing the cover of the 9 by 5 exhibition catalogue which he designed.

Details

  • Title: An Impressionist (Tom Roberts)
  • Creator: Charles Conder
  • Date Created: circa 1889
  • Location: Australia
  • Physical Dimensions: 28.5 x 23.4 cm board; 50.5 x 35.0 x 4.5 cm frame : 0 - Whole; 28 x 14.7 cm; SIGHT DIMENSION
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1997
  • Medium: oil on cedar panel
  • Signature & Date: Signed u.r., blue oil "... C/ -hAR/ -LES/ CONDER". Not dated.
  • Artist Country: England, Australia

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