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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 27, 2014 | Deutscher and Hackett | Sydney | Important Australian + International Fine Art | 8 | $****** - ****** | CHATTING; known as "Causerie" |
paintings
60.5 x 73 cm (23.82 x 28.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed lower right: Rupert C.W. Bunny; inscribed on stretcher verso: CHATTING
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, purchased 1923 (label attached verso)
Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1985
Tom Silver Fine Art, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne
Exposition Rupert C. W. Bunny, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 16-31 March 1917, cat. 10 (as "Causerie")
Exhibition of Paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny, Fine Art Society"s Gallery, Melbourne, 15-27 November 1922, cat. 25
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny, Anthony Hordern and Sons Limited, Sydney, 2-31 May 1923, cat. 25
Rupert Bunny Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1 October - 10 November 1946, cat.1
100 Years of Australian Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 April - 17 May 1948, cat. 18
Rupert Bunny Retrospective, Newcastle City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 31 July - 3 September 1968, cat. 10
Rupert Bunny Loan Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 September - 6 October 1968, cat. 5
Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976-77, cat. 14
Geffroy, G., "Rupert Bunny" [catalogue introduction], Exposition Rupert C. W. Bunny, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1917
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 1923, p. 4
Sun, Sydney, 2 May 1923
Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 3 May 1923, p. 6
Sunday Times, Sydney, 6 May 1923, p. 13
Australasian, Melbourne, 12 May 1923, p. 942
Turnbull, C., and Buesst, T., The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, [1948], p. 70
Badham, H., A Study of Australian Art, Currawong Publishing, Sydney, 1949, pl. 28 (illus.)
Smith, B., A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1875-1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1953, pp. 36-7
Thomas, D., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, October 1970, pp. 554, 563 (illus.)
Thomas, D., Rupert Bunny, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, p. 68, cat. 0166
Lindsay, R., Aspects of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976, cat. 14 (illus.)
RUPERT BUNNY
(1864 - 1947)
CHATTING, c.1910-15 also known as "Causerie"
oil on canvas
60.5 x 73.0 cm
signed lower right: Rupert C.W. Bunny
inscribed on stretcher verso: CHATTING
