Tudor St George Tucker Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Tudor St George Tucker Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 29, 2023
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906), Day Dreams circa 1892
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Day Dreams circa 1892 oil on canvas signed lower left: T. S. G. Tucker 45 x 54.5cm PROVENANCE Private Collection Sotheby's, Melbourne, 17 April 1989, Lot 374 (as 'Sleeping Nymph') Henry Krongold, Melbourne The Estate of Paul Krongold, Melbourne EXHIBITED Victorian Artists' Society Exhibition of paintings, sculpture & drawings, Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne, April 1893, cat. no. 40 Victorian Artists' Society Exhibition of Australian Art past and present, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 1893, cat. no. 118 LITERATURE ‘Art and artists: Mr. Tudor St. G. Tucker', Table Talk, Melbourne, 26 August 1892, p. 6 ‘Victorian Artist's Society', The Argus, Melbourne, 20 April 1893, p. 7
Gibson's
Aug. 16, 2023
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER, DAY DREAMS, C.1892
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862 - 1906) DAY DREAMS, c.1892 oil on canvas 45.0 x 54.5 cm signed lower left: T. S. G. Tucker PROVENANCE Private collection Sotheby's, Melbourne, 17 April 1989, lot 374 (as 'Sleeping Nymph') Henry Krongold, Melbourne The Estate of Paul Krongold, Melbourne EXHIBITED Victorian Artists’ Society Exhibition of paintings, sculpture & drawings, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne, April 1893, cat. 40 Victorian Artists’ Society Exhibition of Australian Art past and present, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 1893, cat. 118 LITERATURE ‘Art and artists: Mr. Tudor St. G. Tucker’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 26 August 1892, p. 6 ‘Victorian Artist’s Society’, The Argus, Melbourne, 20 April 1893, p. 7 ESSAY In August 1892, just months after his return from Paris, a reporter from Table Talk conducted an interview with Tudor St. George Tucker in his new Melbourne studio in Flinders Street. The reporter describes in detail much of what he saw there as he conversed with the artist, particularly the powerful Picardy Shrimpfisher, 1891 (Warrnambool Art Gallery), on display in prime position following its successful debut the previous year at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français where it was hung ‘on the line.’ The reporter was also attracted to an unfinished oil sketch on another easel of a woman waking from sleep that he predicted would be ranked as a chef d’ouvre (masterpiece) when completed.1 Tucker subsequently titled this work Day dreams, c.1892 and entered it into two exhibitions at the Victorian Artists’ Society in 1892 where its evocative mood drew critical praise from the reviewer. Tucker was English by birth but came to Australia for his health in 1881, aged 19. Between 1883 and 1887 he trained at the National Gallery School under George Folingsby where co-students included Rupert Bunny, Emanuel Phillips Fox, John Longstaff and Arthur Streeton. In 1887, Tucker and Fox left for Paris, with both studying at the Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau, the acclaimed painter of classical nudes, and then with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1890, Charles Conder wrote that ‘the American [art] students here tell me that Tucker is the strongest man from Australia in Paris and Fox is also thought a great deal of.’2 Day dreams displays the rigour of successful French academic training. As the Table Talk reviewer went on to describe, it features ‘a young peasant girl, just awakening from a sleep in a grassy glade in an autumn tinted wood. The landscape is unfinished, though sketched in with firm, bold touches, reproducing the glow and warmth of the fading summer. The figure of the sleeper is admirably posed, the outline correct, and the colouring very pleasing by its complete harmony and the brilliant effect of the light.’3 Next to her lies a platter of grapes, a fruit which comes into season in autumn. Grapes are also symbolic of Dionysus (also known as Bacchus), god of fertility and wine, whose festivals featured copious amounts of drinking and sensual revels. The implied suggestion is that the girl has partaken of many pleasures during the evening and now wakes in a secluded den of leaves, through which the sun is slowly streaming. When exhibited at the Victorian Artist’s Society, the reviewer for The Argus noted the similarity to Raphael Collins’ Floréal, then hanging in the Louvre,4 and there is a marked similarity indeed. However, where Collins’ figure was obviously painted in the studio and superimposed on a brightly coloured, flower-strewn riverbank, Tucker’s model is more believably enveloped by her surroundings. In 1894, Tucker and Fox established the Melbourne Art School at ‘Charterisville’, an old stone house in Ivanhoe. It quickly became the city’s leading academy, nurturing a new generation of significant artists including Hugh Ramsay, Christine Asquith Baker, Ina Gregory and Violet Teague. Unfortunately, Tucker’s health began to fail and he returned to London, settling in Chelsea, where he died of tuberculosis at age 44, a tragically early death for such a talented painter. 1. ‘Art and artists: Mr. Tudor St. G. Tucker’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 26 August 1892, p. 6 2. ‘Mr. Charles Conder’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 1 August 1890, pp. 14 – 15 3. ‘Art and artists: Mr. Tudor St. G. Tucker’, ibid. 4. The painting is now housed in the Musee D’Orsay, Paris ANDREW GAYNOR
Deutscher and Hackett
Jul. 27, 2022
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER, OUR TENT AT SWANAGE, DORSETSHIRE, C.1903
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862 - 1906) OUR TENT AT SWANAGE, DORSETSHIRE, c.1903 oil on canvas 50.5 x 76.5 cm bears inscription on old label verso: Our Tent At Swanage … /For Dr Wilkinson/In Remembrance Of/Tudor St G. Tucker PROVENANCE Captain Charlton Nassau Tucker and Mrs Harriet Tucker, United Kingdom, the artist’s parents Dr William Cleland Wilkinson, Melbourne, a gift from the above Thence by descent Private collection Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 November 1999, lot 35 The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above EXHIBITED on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales LITERATURE Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 17 – 18, 31 (illus.), 235 ESSAY We are grateful to Brenda Martin Thomas, wife of the late David Thomas AM, for kindly allowing us to reproduce David's research and writing in this catalogue entry. When Tudor St George Tucker returned to Melbourne in 1892 after studying at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts, he brought with him new ideas fresh from Paris and a painting technique that was much admired. His contemporaries saw his work as belonging ‘to the modern French school, whose principal tenets are an insistence on atmospheric effect, a preference for neutral colour and an absence of detail. Nature is regarded from afar off, when outline becomes indistinguishable and merges into colour.’1 Establishing the Melbourne Art School with E. Phillips Fox, together with summer schools at Charterisville, he exerted a wide influence that extended beyond the circle of his students to include established artists such as Frederick McCubbin. Moreover, the School placed an emphasis on painting en plein air, the summer term being devoted to outdoor sketching in the country or seaside, with special attention paid to colour. During this time, Tucker also became noted for his portraits, especially of young women, while his landscapes such as A Study of Sunlight, c.1892; Early Dawn, c.1893, and Springtime, c.1893 showed more than a casual Impressionist interest in nature. Aspects of impressionism are included in Our Tent at Swanage, Dorsetshire, c.1903 in the informality of the brushwork, vivid colour, and the practice of working in the open direct from nature. There is also the Impressionists’ love of informality, spontaneity of the composition and selection of scenes of leisure and interest in contemporary life. Like many of his contemporaries in Europe and Australia, Tucker was attracted to the seaside – subject of summer pastimes by the sea was much in fashion in European society at this time. Depicting the Dorset coast in Southern England where the artist often retreated during his final years to bolster his failing health, the painting was exhibited in 1903, and most likely featured in his final exhibition, Sea and Sunlight, 1906. 1. ‘Mr Tudor Tucker’, Table Talk, Melbourne, 5 July 1895, p.7
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 24, 2022
Tudor St. George Tucker (1862-1906)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Portrait of Mary Kathleen, 1893 oil on canvas, signed with the artist's monogram and inscribed u.r.c. 'To Mrs Wilkinson with Best Wishes Xmas, 1893'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Apr. 23, 2020
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) - The Mackerel 25.5 x 34.5 cm (frame: 31 x 41 x 2 cm)
Est: $600 - $800
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) The Mackerel oil on panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm (frame: 31 x 41 x 2 cm) unsigned. Provenance: Peter Wilson, UK, Lot 438 ; by direct descent from the Artist''s family
Lawsons
Feb. 27, 2020
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) - The Mackerel 25.5 x 34.5 cm
Est: $800 - $1,200
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) The Mackerel oil on panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm unsigned. Provenance: Peter Wilson, UK, Lot 438 ; by direct descent from the Artist''s family
Lawsons
Jan. 30, 2020
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) - The Mackerel 25.5 x 34.5 cm
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Tudor St George Tucker (1862 - 1906) The Mackerel oil on panel 25.5 x 34.5 cm unsigned. Provenance: Peter Wilson, UK, Lot 438 ; by direct descent from the Artist''s family
Lawsons
Nov. 26, 2019
TUDOR ST. GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Portrait of Louisa Ann Wilkinson c.1884 oil on canvas
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
TUDOR ST. GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Portrait of Louisa Ann Wilkinson c.1884 oil on canvas unsigned in original John Thallon frame 29 x 22cm PROVENANCE: Commissioned by Dr. William Cleland Wilkinson, Melbourne Thence by descent Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 November 2000, lot 170 (as Portrait of a Young Woman ) Private collection, Sydney Menzies, Sydney, 22 March 2012, lot 152 Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: Dr. William Cleland Wilkinson was the artist's doctor and they even shared a residence for a time in the 1890's. Louisa appears in other works of Tudor's in this period.
Leonard Joel
Jul. 21, 2019
TUCKER Tudor St George (1862-1906), Figure Study, 1898., Pastel, 52x36.5cm
Est: $400 - $700
TUCKER, Tudor St George (1862-1906) Figure Study, 1898. Monogrammed & dated lower right. Pastel 52x36.5cm
Davidson Auctions
Nov. 21, 2017
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER 1862-1906 The Lovers' Hour 1895 oil on canvas 76 x 126 cm
Est: $180,000 - $220,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER 1862-1906 The Lovers' Hour 1895 oil on canvas signed and dated 'T S G Tucker / 1895' lower right 76 x 126 cm PROVENANCE Mr George Sutherland Smith, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above EXHIBITED Annual Exhibition, Victorian Artists' Society, Albert Street, East Melbourne, 20 September 1895, no. 66, £31.10.0 Masterpieces of Australian Impressionism, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 24-26 July 2009, no. 23 LITERATURE Table Talk, Melbourne, 5 July 1895, p. 7 The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 1895, p. 7 Table Talk, Melbourne, 20 September 1895, p. 6
Smith & Singer
Nov. 15, 2015
Tudor St George Tucker 1862-1906 - Melbourne Parkland 51 x 61cm
Est: $800 - $1,200
Tudor St George Tucker 1862-1906 Melbourne Parkland mixed media 51 x 61cm initialled lower left
Lawsons
Sep. 24, 2015
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) A Sussex Cornfield - Evening
Est: -
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) A Sussex Cornfield - Evening - near Chichester
Christie's
Jun. 25, 2015
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Remembrance of Summer c1890s
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Remembrance of Summer c1890s oil on cedar panels (4) (i) 26.0 x 35.5 cm (ii) 26.0 x 35.5 cm (iii) 25.0 x 35.5 cm (iv) 25.0 x 35.5 cm
Menzies
Mar. 21, 2013
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER, (1862-1906), Remembrance
Est: $40,000 - $50,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER, (1862-1906), Remembrance of Summer, 1890s, oil on cedar panels (4), (i) 26.0 x 35.5 cm, (ii) 26.0 x 35.5 cm, (iii) 25.0 x 35.5 cm, (iv) 25.0 x 35.5 cm
Menzies
Oct. 10, 2012
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906)
Est: - £5,625
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) Sunset signed and dated 'T.SG Tucker 1900' (lower right) oil on canvas 20 x 30in. (50.9 x 76.3cm.)
Christie's
Mar. 22, 2012
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Portrait of Louisa Ann Wilkinson
Est: $2,800 - $3,500
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906) Portrait of Louisa Ann Wilkinson Medium: oil on canvas Size: 30.5 x 23.0 cm Provenance: Dr. William Cleland Wilkinson, Melbourne|Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne|Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 November 2000, lot 170 (as Portrait of a Young Woman)|Private collection, Sydney Date: c1884
Menzies
Sep. 23, 2010
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906)
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) Portrait of a young lady in a white dress signed with initials and dated 'TSGT 1896' (upper left) oil on canvas unframed 20 1/8 x 16in. (51.1 x 40.7cm.)
Christie's
Apr. 28, 2010
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER Garden Party, 1901 oil on
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
TUDOR ST GEORGE TUCKER Garden Party, 1901 oil on canvas 34.0 x 42.5 cm
Deutscher and Hackett
Sep. 14, 2009
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) Portrait of John Himan 1893
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Tudor St George Tucker (1862-1906) Portrait of John Himan 1893 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 50 x 40 cm
Raffan Kelaher & Thomas