RUPERT BUNNY
1864-1947
A Word of Advice (1908)Conseil d'Amie
Estimate $250,000 – $350,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MRS TONI LEWIS, SYDNEY
RUPERT BUNNY
1864-1947
A Word of Advice (1908)
Conseil d'Amie
oil on canvas
signed 'Rupert C. W. Bunny' lower right
65.2 x 81 cm
frame: original, maker unknown
- Lot Sold $290,000 (Hammer Price)
- $353,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Mr Rupert Bunny, Paris
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, acquired from the above in July 1911
exchanged with the artist for A Summer Morning in September 1911
Mr Norman Schureck, Sydney
The Norman Schureck Collection of Valuable Pictures, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 1962, lot 67, 'Figure Group'
Mrs Frank Chartres, Melbourne
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Private Collection, Sydney
Sotheby's Australia
Mrs Toni Lewis, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2009
Exhibited
Allied Artists Association, London, July 1908, no. 1547
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts (New Salon), Paris, 15 April – 30 June 1910, no. 199
Exhibition of Pictures by Rupert Bunny, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 24 July – 14 August 1911, no. 30, 60 gns
Literature
L'éclair, Paris, 14 April 1910, p. 2
'Mr. Bunny's Exhibition. A Modern Art Show', The Argus, Melbourne, 24 July 1911, p. 7
Table Talk, Melbourne, 10 August 1911, p. 32
The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 1 September 1911, p. 11 (illustrated)
'More Australian Paintings. For the National Art Gallery', The Evening News, Sydney, 1 September 1911, p. 12
'National Art Gallery',The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 September 1911, p. 5
Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, p. 70
David Thomas, Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. O125, p. 64
David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O283, pp. 42-43
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