Rupert Bunny 1864-1947

• Lot Sold $430,000 (Hammer Price)
• $516,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

LA CHENILLE VERT 
THE GREEN CATERPILLAR (1910)

oil on canvas
signed 'Rupert C. W. Bunny' lower right
frame: original, maker unknown
81 X 65CM

PROVENANCE
Purchased by the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1911 exchanged for A Summer Morning, in 1911
Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, Sydney
A Most Important Collection of Australian Paintings, Drawings and Prints under instructions from and as directed by The Executors of the Will of the Late Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, K.B.E. and Lady Clark, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 15 June 1954, lot 14, (125 gns)
Mr Cecil Green, Melbourne
The Estate of the Late Mrs Marjory Green, Sydney

EXHIBITED
Société Internationale de Peinture & Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1910, no. 19, 'La Chenille verte'
Catalogue of Paintings, 'Days and Nights in August', by Rupert Bunny, The Baillie Gallery, London, 22 April - 12 May 1911, no. 23
Exhibition of Pictures by Rupert Bunny, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 24 July - 14 August 1911, no. 46, 'The Caterpillar', 50 gns
Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors from the Collection of Mr R.M. Clark, Marcus Clark showrooms, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 6 August 1923, no. 7
R. M. Clark Exhibition of Pictures, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, June - September 1926, no. 6
The Australian Art Exhibition, The Macleod Gallery, Sydney, 22 March 1932, no. 46 (Loan)

 LITERATURE
The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 1 September 1911, p. 11 (illustrated)
Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 September 1911, p. 5
David Thomas, Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. O126

We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of David Thomas in cataloguing this work.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MRS MARJORY GREEN, SYDNEY