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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 19, 2020 | Christie's | Online | Australian Art-Online | 12 | $****** - ****** | Le Rossignol |
paintings
73 x 60 cm (28.74 x 23.62 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Rupert CW Bunny' (lower right)
Dr. Alejandro Zabotinsky (1880-1941), Buenos Aires, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Société Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Dec. 1908, cat. 25 (as ‘Le Rossignol’).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie International, Nov. 1909-April 1910, cat. 38 (as ‘Summer Night’).
Paris, Musée Beaudoin, Exposition des 50 Meilleurs Tableaux des Peintres Actuels, Dec. 1909 (as ‘En Écoutant Chanter le Rossignol').
Rome, International Fine Arts Exhibition, 27 March 1911, cat. 139 (as ‘A Summer Night’).
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 10 May 1913, cat. 223, (as ‘A Summer Night’).
Le Touquet, Société Artistique de Picardie, July-Aug. 1914, cat. 50 (as ‘Nuit d’Été’).
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Exposition Rupert C. W. Bunny, 16-31 March 1917, cat. 48 (as ‘Le Chant du rossignol’).
H. Chervet, ‘Expositions de Peintures’, La Nouvelle Revue, Paris, 1 Jan. 1909, pp.136-9.
I. Spielmann, Souvenir of the British Section, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Rome, 1911, ‘Modern Oil Paintings, Room V’ illustration p.58 includes 'A Summer Night', and p.192 illustration cat. 139, as 'A Summer Night', incorrectly illustrating 'Endormies', c.1904.
The Argus, Melbourne, 20 May 2011, p.8.
The Register, Adelaide, 31 May 1911, p.8.
The Age, Melbourne, 24 July 1911, p.11.
W. Moore, 'The Remarkable Record of Rupert Bunny’, Life, Melbourne, Sept. 1911, p.249.
M. Eagle, The Art of Rupert Bunny in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1991, pp.61, 72, 76, 78, and 238.
N. Buchaniec, Salons de Province, Les Expositions Artistiques dans le Nord de la France (1870-1914), Rennes, 2010, p.119 (as 'Nuit d’Été', illustrated).
D. Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny, A Catalogue Raisonné: Volume 2, Melbourne, 2017, cat. O316, p.46 (as 'Nuit d’Été', details and location unknown at date of publication).
signed 'Rupert CW Bunny' (lower right)
oil on canvas
283⁄4 x 235⁄8in. (73 x 60cm.)
