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Thomas Balfour (Tom) Garrett, 1879-1952, Australia.
Born in Hobart in 1879, Garrett specialised in monotypes and watercolours. He only took to painting professionally in 1929 when he gave up his reading for Holy Orders with the Anglican Church. Garrett died 1952.

 Top Five Sale Prices
Figures on the Promenade, Manly, watercolour, signed, 21 x 76 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 12/04/87
Beside the Dam, oil on canvas, signed lower right Tom Garrett, 48 x 58.5 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 03/05/88
Lepkin's Castle, watercolour, signed lower right, 42 x 37 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 06/04/87
Homestead, monotype, signed and inscribed in pencil Homestead, Tom Garrett, 26.5 x 30 cm, Price $****, Christies, Sydney, 26/10/87
Gums and Old Dray by a Pool, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 48 x 58 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Sydney, 03/06/01
The table below shows the number of works of art by Thomas Balfour (Tom) Garrett offered and sold by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years and listed in our database. Full details of each work, including title, medium, size, signature and sold price are available to subscribers.
Medium Offered Sold
Paintings 94 66
Works on Paper 490 374
Prints & Graphics 857 616
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