RUPERT BUNNY
1864-1947
Port of Toulon (circa 1925)
$20,000–30,000
RUPERT BUNNY
1864-1947
Port of Toulon (circa 1925)
oil on canvas
signed 'RCWB' lower left
54.5 x 65 cm frame: original, maker unknown
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
Provenance
Hogan's Art Gallery, Melbourne
Mrs F.E.M. Plews, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1937
Dr K.F. Fairley, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Exhibited
Exhibition of Paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny, Hogan's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 20 April - 8 May 1937, no. 6, 35 gns
Rupert Bunny Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1 October - 18 November 1946, no. 33 (label verso)
Literature
Basil Burdett, 'Flower and Landscape by Rupert Bunny', The Herald, Melbourne, 19 April 1937, p. 8
Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, Melbourne, 1948, plate 7, pp. 29 (illustrated), 73
David Thomas, Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. O379, p. 94
David Thomas, 'Rupert Bunny', Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, March 1972, p. 334
Colette Reddin, Rupert Bunny Himself: His Final Years in Melbourne, Colette Reddin, Melbourne, 1987, pp. 24 (illustrated), 35, 44
David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O706, p. 75
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