RUPERT BUNNY
1864-1947

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS JAMES REID, VICTORIA

RUPERT BUNNY

1864-1947
St Christopher (1903)

oil on canvas
signed 'Rupert C. W. Bunny' lower left
160 x 165 cm

Provenance

The Estate of Rupert Bunny, Melbourne
Mrs James R. Reid, Victoria, acquired from the above
Private Collection, United Kingdom, by descent from the above
Private Collection, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1903, no. 94, £200
Rupert C.W. Bunny, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 11-21 July 1928, no. 14, (500 gns)
Paintings by Rupert Bunny from Private Collections, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin, 25 November – 8 February, 1972, no. 29, illustrated

Literature

Western Daily Press, United Kingdom, 25 March 1903, p. 7
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 25 March 1903, p. 6
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 26 March 1903, p. 5
Western Daily Press, United Kingdom, 28 October 1903, p. 9
Art Journal, London, p. 56
Magazine of Art, 1903, p. 362
The Argus, Melbourne, 11 July 1928, p. 17
The Sydney Mail, Sydney, 19 September 1928, p. 13
Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney 1948, plate 12, p. 74
David Thomas, Paintings by Rupert Bunny from Private Collections, Melbourne, 1972, n.p. (illustrated)
David Thomas, Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1977, cat. no. O77, p. 40
Mary Eagle, The Art of Rupert Bunny, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991, p. 15
Deborah Edwards, Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009, p. 49
David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O206, p. 34