Robert Rooney Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert Rooney Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 17, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY, GOLDEN GATE, OR TIME'S LITTLE SHEELER, 1995
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 - 2017) GOLDEN GATE, OR TIME'S LITTLE SHEELER, 1995 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 102.0 x 198.5 cm signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Robert Rooney / Golden Gate or (Time's) Little Sheeler 1995 PROVENANCE Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Private collection, Perth Bonhams, Sydney, 14 November 2018, lot 1 John Barnes, Melbourne The Estate of John Barnes, Melbourne EXHIBITED That which I should have done I did not do: Paintings by Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, 20 September – 7 October 1995, cat. 1 LITERATURE Thomas, D., Melbourne Modern: The art of Robert Rooney, Art and Australia, vol. 34, no. 4, 1997, p. 482 (illus.) © Estate of Robert Rooney This work is located in our Melbourne gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 28, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY, (1937 - 2017), Jeu De Cartes (The Joker) - 2004, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 128 x 182.5 cm
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 - 2017) Jeu De Cartes (The Joker) - 2004 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, dated and titled verso 'Portrait of Jean Babilee'
Lawsons
Mar. 19, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), High School Jinx Dynamite
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) High School Jinx Dynamite lithograph signed and editioned on margin: ROBERT ROONEY / 20/20 20.5 x 15cm
Gibson's
Mar. 19, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), Moonflower Tree 1954 - 2001
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Moonflower Tree 1954 - 2001 etching signed, dated, titled and editioned on margin: ROBERT ROONEY 1954-2001 / MOONFLOWER TREE / 21/25 18 x 12.5cm
Gibson's
Mar. 19, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), Head 4 (Jean Babilee) 2005
Est: $300 - $500
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 4 (Jean Babilee) 2005 lithograph signed, dated, titled and editioned on margin: ROBERT ROONEY '05 / HEAD 4 (JEAN BABILEE) / 2/25 20.5 x 18.5cm
Gibson's
Mar. 19, 2024
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), Head 3 (Nathalie Philippart) 2005
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 3 (Nathalie Philippart) 2005 photolithograph signed, dated, titled and editioned on margin: ROBERT ROONEY '05 / HEAD 3 (NATHALIE PHILIPPART) / 2/25 17.5 x 22.5cm
Gibson's
Nov. 29, 2023
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), The Spirit of the Age 3: Fame 1995
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Spirit of the Age 3: Fame 1995 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 138.0 x 112.0 cm signed, dated and inscribed verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE/ 3: FAME/ 1995/ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS/ 137.5 x 112cm
Menzies
May. 23, 2023
Robert Rooney (1937-2017)
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Jeu De Cartes: the Joker, 2004 acrylic on canvas, signed, titled and dated verso 'Robert Rooney, Balletomania: Jeu De Cartes: The Joker (Portrait Of Jean Babilee) Aug, 2004'
Shapiro Auctioneers
May. 02, 2023
ROBERT ROONEY 1937-2017 1935: A Midnight Gallop 2002 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
ROBERT ROONEY 1937-2017 1935: A Midnight Gallop 2002 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, dated and inscribed 'ROBERT ROONEY / 1935: A MIDNIGHT GALLOP MARCH 2002' verso 137 x 199 cm PROVENANCE Robert Rooney, Melbourne Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above EXHIBITED Robert Rooney: A Midnight Gallop, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2002
Smith & Singer
Apr. 20, 2023
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Beans and Banzai 1987 screenprint, ed. A/P
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Beans and Banzai 1987 screenprint, ed. A/P signed and dated lower right: ROBERT ROONEY '87 titled and editioned lower left 36.5 x 54.5cm OTHER NOTES: PLEASE NOTE THIS WORK IS UNFRAMED.
Leonard Joel
Apr. 16, 2023
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017), The Mamlock Lock Tombs, or Coming Nemi in Cairo 1991 and Nott Rose Opthalmic of Rue Victor Cousin Hotel De Cluney 1991
Est: $600 - $900
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Mamlock Lock Tombs, or Coming Nemi in Cairo 1991 and Nott Rose Opthalmic of Rue Victor Cousin Hotel De Cluney 1991 collage and acrylic on hardboard each signed, dated and titled verso: THE MAMLOCK TOMBS, OR COMING NEMI IN CAIRO 1991 AND NOTT ROSE OPTHALMIC OF RUE VICTOR COUSIN HOTEL DE CLUNEY 1991 31 x 23.5cm (each) EXHIBITED Collage Collectibles, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia, 1991 Private Collection, Sunshine Coast
Gibson's
Nov. 16, 2022
ROBERT ROONEY 1937-2017 Creative Art: Kinder Cubism (Paysage Aux Deux Figures) 1998 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
ROBERT ROONEY 1937-2017 Creative Art: Kinder Cubism (Paysage Aux Deux Figures) 1998 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, dated and inscribed 'ROBERT ROONEY / CREATIVE ART: KINDER CUBISM (PAYSAGE / AUX DEUX FIGURES) / 1998' verso 122 x 228.6 cm PROVENANCE Robert Rooney, Melbourne Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne
Smith & Singer
Feb. 23, 2022
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) In Storyland No. 5: The Man in the Sack 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) In Storyland No. 5: The Man in the Sack 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, titled and dated verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ "IN STORYLAND 5./ THE MAN IN THE SACK" 1993 138 x 109cm PROVENANCE: Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne The National Australia Bank Art Collection (label verso)
Leonard Joel
Feb. 23, 2022
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) In Storyland No. 7: The Three Roads 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) In Storyland No. 7: The Three Roads 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, titled and dated verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ "IN STORYLAND 7/ THE THREE ROADS"/ 1993. 137.5 x 107cm PROVENANCE: Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne 1998 The National Australia Bank Art Collection (label verso)
Leonard Joel
Feb. 22, 2022
ROBERT ROONEY, IN STORYLAND 1, RAGGY BEAR AND PRINCELING, 1993
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 - 2017) IN STORYLAND 1, RAGGY BEAR AND PRINCELING, 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 137.0 x 107.0 cm signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: ROBERT ROONEY / << IN STORYLAND I. / RAGGY BEAR AND PRINCELING >> / 1993 PROVENANCE Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired from the above in October 1997 (label attached verso) EXHIBITED Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, 29 September – 16 October 1993, cat. 12
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 22, 2022
ROBERT ROONEY, GONE BIO-BIO TOO, 1993
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 - 2017) GONE BIO-BIO TOO, 1993 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 177.5 x 122.0 cm signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: ROBERT ROONEY / << GONE BIO–BIO TOO >> / 1993. PROVENANCE Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired from the above in October 1999 (label attached verso) EXHIBITED Robert Rooney, Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, 29 September – 16 October 1993, cat. 7 Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, 15 March – 1 May 1996 (label attached to stretcher bar verso) LITERATURE McPhee, J., Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1996, p. 27 (illus.) ESSAY Robert Rooney is often lumbered with the blanket description that he was one of Australia’s finest conceptual artists. While somewhat accurate it is nonetheless an incomplete catch-all to describe work which is diverse but solidly underpinned conceptually. Consider Sol LeWitt’s proposition: ‘In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair’.1 It is not possible to look at anything Rooney has undertaken and fail to be impressed by the ‘hand’ of the artist at every stage. The Field exhibition of 1968 consisted largely of colourfield formalism while Rooney’s contribution, a painting of richly multi-coloured uniform shapes and repeated within a gridded system, was deservedly highlighted for its originality and avant-garde credentials: but despite the context, his works were Pop art.2 His consistency was always unwavering, ‘I have always preferred to work from secondary sources, particularly mass media ones, rather than paint or draw from the actual subject’.3 The Kind-hearted kitchen-garden series from 1967 – 68 remain highly regarded. His discreet and underplayed wry humour was always present. Some shapes have their origins in packets of Kellogg’s cornflakes – the back of the packet and the cardboard components were able to be removed and assembled for a child’s amusement.4 Rooney straddles two bridges, that of a Pop artist and one who is central to Post-Pop in Australia. A friend to many of the next generation and a co-exhibitor with them, he was the oldest participant in the landmark exhibition Popism.5 In 1970, he abandoned painting and didn’t begin again until 1982. The intervening years were intensely productive; photography took over. His distinctive approach with an interest in conceptualism, serialisation, repetition – usually deadpan in character – invoked imagery from home to suburbia. It began a correspondence and relationship with an international network of like-minded artists from Los Angeles to New York and London. When Gone Bio–Bio Too was exhibited at the Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art in 1993, Rooney offered the briefest of statements, recalling his early interest in abstraction, cubism and surrealists such as Jean Arp and Joan Miró, ‘…also take on associations with my hard-edge serial/cereal abstractions of the late 1960s. Other associations will have to be worked out by the viewer.’6 The reference to biomorphic abstraction is unmistakable, especially Miró where organic bulbous shapes are divided by two contrasting colours and black lineal definitions play across the surface.7 Rooney often used imagery he had gathered from childhood onwards, with the flatness of children’s book illustrations and comics coming to mind. An all-over controlled randomness is evocative of sixties design – sweeps, arcs, and geometric shapes that float are held in space, intersected and lock together. He trained as a commercial designer – a modernist style of his generation that remained with him. What makes Gone Bio–Bio Too so remarkable is Rooney’s multifaceted play with elusive sources, ideas and interests to make a work which delights with the completely unexpected. 1. LeWitt, S., Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Artforum Vol. 5, no. 10, Summer 1967, pp. 79 – 83 2. Brophy, P., Robert Rooney as Pop in From the homefront: Robert Rooney, works 1953 – 1988, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1990 3. Quote by the artist, 1986, accompanying the catalogue entry for Child's journey 1944 – 1954, 1983, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, gift of Loti Smorgon AO and Victor Smorgon AC 4. Kind-hearted kitchen-garden IV, 1968, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 168.0 x 168.0 cm, collection of The University of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne 5. Popism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1982, curated by Paul Taylor (1957 – 1992), former editor of Art & Text. Artists featured in the show included Howard Arkley, David Chesworth, Ian Cox, Juan Davila, Richard Dunn, Paul Fletcher, Maria Kozic, Robert Rooney, Jane Stevenson, The Society for Other Photography, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, and Tsk Tsk Tsk. 6. Rooney cited in Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, n.p. 7. Joan Miró (1893 – 1983), Hirondelle Amour 1933 – 34, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1976 DOUG HALL AM
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 19, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Jeu de Cartes: The Joker 2004
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Jeu de Cartes: The Joker 2004 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 128.0 x 182.5 cm signed, dated and inscribed verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ BALLETOMANIA:/ JEU DE CARTES: THE JOKER/ (PORTRAIT OF JEAN BABILEE) . AUG ./ 2004/ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS/ 128 x 182 cm
Menzies
Oct. 08, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30
Est: $220 - $400
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 26 x 17cm, LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: SMALL
Leonard Joel
Oct. 01, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30
Est: $300 - $500
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 26 x 17cm, , LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: SMALL
Leonard Joel
Aug. 20, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 26 x 17cm, , LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: SMALL
Leonard Joel
Aug. 04, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY, LE RIRE: HÉRÉDITÉ (GOD), 2009
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 – 2017) LE RIRE: HÉRÉDITÉ (GOD), 2009 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 91.0 x 113.5 cm signed, dated and inscribed verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ LE RIRE: HÉRÉDITÉ (GOD) / 2009 bears inscription on label verso: 5/6 HÉRÉDITÉ PROVENANCE Estate of the artist, Melbourne EXHIBITED French Laughter Le Rire: Homage to Picq, Vire and GOD, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 8 April – 8 May 2010 This work is located at our Melbourne Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Jul. 29, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 4 2005 etching 1/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 4 2005 etching 1/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 20 x 18cm
Leonard Joel
Jul. 29, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Le Jeune 2005 etching 1/30 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 26 x 17cm
Leonard Joel
Jul. 29, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Moonflower Tree 1954-2001 etching 21/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Moonflower Tree 1954-2001 etching 21/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 18 x 13cm
Leonard Joel
Jul. 15, 2020
ROBERT ROONEY, CANINE CAPERS VII, 1969 – 79
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 – 2017) CANINE CAPERS VII, 1969 – 79 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 153.0 x 153.0 cm signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Robert Rooney / … / CANINE CAPERS VII 1969 – 79 PROVENANCE Estate of the artist, Melbourne RELATED WORK Canine Capers III, 1969, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 152.4 x 152.4 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Canine Capers IV, 1969, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 152.0 x 152.0 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide ESSAY Despite his widespread influence as not only one of Australia’s most innovative exponents of conceptual and pop art, but as a renowned art critic for two broadsheet newspapers over two decades as well,1 remarkably Robert Rooney spent almost his entire life living in the city of Melbourne. Born in 1937, he studied art with Dale Hickey at Swinburne Technical College from 1954-57, and subsequently at the Phillip Institute in Preston from 1972 – 73. Notwithstanding his reluctance to venture beyond his hometown, throughout his career Rooney remained obsessively informed of global contemporary art activity and cultural phenomena – amassing a formidable collection of magazines, art books, photographic prints and newspaper clippings. He also forged correspondence with various artists abroad, including, most famously, his seven-year exchange with New York-based conceptualist, Roger Cutforth. During his formative years Rooney experimented with colours and shapes of mass-produced domestic objects to create geometric, hard-edge abstractions and in 1968, gained international recognition with his inclusion in the seminal survey of colour-field painting, The Field, organised by the National Gallery of Victoria. From 1969 to 1981, Rooney’s practice however became more conceptualist and process-based, exploring ideas of duration, routine and repetition through serial photography. He eventually returned to painting in 1982, appropriating both printed ephemera and his own earlier oeuvre to interrogate the potential for ‘absenting content’ in a manner reminiscent of Pop pioneers, Warhol and Duchamp. Significantly, in 1982 Rooney was included in Paul Taylor’s controversial exhibition of Post-Pop art, POPISM, at the National Gallery of Victoria; and more recently, in 2010 his contribution was honoured with Endless Present: Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. Quintessentially Pop with its motifs of domesticity, suburbanism and repetition, the ‘Canine Capers’ series – exemplified superbly here by Canine Capers, no.7, 1968 – was significantly produced the same year as the groundbreaking Field show, and remains acclaimed among Rooney’s finest achievements with other examples housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Created from stencils inspired by the pre-designed animal shapes on the back of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes packets (intended to be cut out by children and assembled as mobiles), the series cunningly collides abstraction and representation, flirting mimesis while disavowing reference. If a Duchampian pun is also discernible in the play between ‘cereal’ and ‘serial’, the supreme irony, as Philip Brophy suggests, ‘is to be found in the innate abstractiveness of the cereal box shapes, marking Rooney’s works as even more hard-edged than ‘the real thing’…’2 Like the two series preceding ‘Canine Capers’ – namely, Kind-Hearted Kitchen Garden, Nos.1-4, and Slippery Seals, Nos. 1-5, both of 1966, here Rooney invokes the device of the interlocking meta-grid, comprised of a repeated motif aligned vertically and horizontally, to structurally reinforce the relationship between the cut-out commodity and the fine art object. Viewed as a consecutive series with each successive painting slightly altering the angle of either all or some of the motifs in alternate sequence, thus a complex polyphonic play of rhythms, shapes and their interlocking grids is achieved – almost akin to a cinematic animation.3 Concerned more with the conceptualisation of perception involved in defining hard-edge abstraction than the practical methods of its production, indeed Canine Capers VII eloquently attests to Rooney’s strong neo-conceptual approach – already evident in these early investigations – that is today considered his greatest legacy. 1. Rooney worked at The Age from 1980 – 82, and at The Australian from 1982 – 99. 2. Brophy, P., ‘Robert Rooney as Pop’ in From the Homefront – Robert Rooney Works 1953 – 1988, exhibition catalogue, Monash University of Art, Melbourne, 1990 3. ibid. VERONICA ANGELATOS
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 27, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY, (1937 – 2017), SCHOOL ARTS STORMS: BIG RED TREE, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937 – 2017) SCHOOL ARTS STORMS: BIG RED TREE, 2002 synthetic polymer paint on canvas SIGNED: signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: ROBERT ROONEY / SCHOOL ARTS STORMS: BIG RED TREE / SEPTEMBER 2002 / … DIMENSIONS: 118.5 x 178.5 cm PROVENANCE: Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in December 2003 EXHIBITED: Robert Rooney: The Modern Child Paintings and Prints, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 22 November – 21 December 2003
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 26, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Spanish Encounter: Cubana 1995 acrylic on canvas
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Spanish Encounter: Cubana 1995 acrylic on canvas signed, titled, and dated verso: ROBERT ROONEY / SPANISH ENCOUNTER / 2: CUBANA / 1995. 87 x 102cm PROVENANCE: Estate of the Artist
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Babilee 2 lithograph 19/20
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Babilee 2 lithograph 19/20 editioned, titled and signed below image 20 x 15cm PROVENANCE: Estate of Robert Rooney
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Le Jeune Homme et la Mort: Citoen 2005 photolithograph 2/30
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Le Jeune Homme et la Mort: Citoen 2005 photolithograph 2/30 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 26 x 17cm PROVENANCE: Estate of Robert Rooney
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Moonflower Tree 1954-2001 etching 4/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Moonflower Tree 1954-2001 etching 4/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 18.5 x 13cm PROVENANCE: Estate of Robery Rooney
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Girl, Hawthorn 1956-2001 linocut 4/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Girl, Hawthorn 1956-2001 linocut 4/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 19.5 x 14cm
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Rimbaud 2016 lithograph 19/20
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937) Rimbaud 2016 lithograph 19/20 editioned, signed and dated below image 15 x 20cm PROVENANCE: Estate of Robert Rooney
Leonard Joel
Sep. 11, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 3 (Nathalie Philippaet) 2005 photolithograph 2/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 3 (Nathalie Philippaet) 2005 photolithograph 2/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 17 x 22cm
Leonard Joel
Sep. 11, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Brothers Gippsland 1956-2001 linocut 4/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Brothers Gippsland 1956-2001 linocut 4/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 22 x 11.5cm
Leonard Joel
Sep. 11, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Night etching 4/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Night etching 4/25 editioned, titled and signed below image 17 x 13cm
Leonard Joel
Sep. 11, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) High School Jinx Dynamite lithograph 20/20
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) High School Jinx Dynamite lithograph 20/20 editioned and signed below image 20 x 15cm
Leonard Joel
Sep. 11, 2019
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 4 (Jean Babilee) 2005 photolithograph 2/25
Est: $400 - $600
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) Head 4 (Jean Babilee) 2005 photolithograph 2/25 editioned, titled, signed and dated below image 20 x 18cm
Leonard Joel
Jun. 05, 2018
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 7 and 13 1995 acrylic on canvas (2)
Est: $2,800 - $3,800
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 7 and 13 1995 acrylic on canvas (2) each signed, titled, and dated verso 77 x 102cm (each) PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jun. 05, 2018
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 11 and 12 1995 acrylic on canvas (2)
Est: $2,800 - $3,800
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 11 and 12 1995 acrylic on canvas (2) each signed, titled, and dated verso 77 x 102cm (each) PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Mar. 20, 2018
Robert Rooney (1937-2017)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
The Kovalevsky Paintings: Home, Crone and Gnome, 2003, acrylic on canvas, titled and dated verso 'Home, Crone and Gnome, 2003',
Shapiro Auctioneers
Nov. 28, 2017
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 7 and 13 1995 acrylic on canvas (2)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 7 and 13 1995 acrylic on canvas (2) each signed, titled, and dated verso 77 x 102cm (each) PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Nov. 28, 2017
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 11 and 12 1995 acrylic on canvas (2)
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ROBERT ROONEY (1937-2017) The Jc Variations 11 and 12 1995 acrylic on canvas (2) each signed, titled, and dated verso 77 x 102cm (each) PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jun. 25, 2015
ROBERT ROONEY born 1937 Tall Tower, Trees and Snaking Path 2000
Est: $9,000 - $12,000
ROBERT ROONEY born 1937 Tall Tower, Trees and Snaking Path 2000 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 122.0 x 195.5 cm signed, dated and inscribed verso: ROBERT ROONEY/ THE KOVALENSKY PAINTINGS/ TALL TOWER TREE AND SNAKING PATHS/ JUNE 2000
Menzies
Nov. 25, 2014
ROBERT ROONEY born 1937 Silly Symphony 3 (Morocco Bound) 1988 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
ROBERT ROONEY born 1937 Silly Symphony 3 (Morocco Bound) 1988 synthetic polymer paint on canvas signed, dated and inscribed 'ROBERT ROONEY / SILLY SYMPHONY 3 (MOROCCO BOUND) 1988 ' verso 126 x 244 cm PROVENANCE Private Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED Silly Symphonies, or at Last the 1968 Show, Part One: New Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, 1988 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
Smith & Singer
Sep. 16, 2014
ROBERT ROONEY (born 1937)
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Dancing Fat Man 1963 oil with collage on board PROVENANCE: South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne 1964 Private collection, Melbourne signed and dated lower right: Robert 63 91 x 136cm
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2011
Robert Rooney (born 1937) Storm Clouds, Smoke and Strange Rain 2001 acrylic on canvas
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Robert Rooney (born 1937) Storm Clouds, Smoke and Strange Rain 2001 acrylic on canvas signed, titled and dated verso 137 x 167.5cm
Leonard Joel