Lot 68

Minor surface dust and imperfections on surface. A very small area seen in the light where hairline cracking has occured in the upper right center. In the mid left hand side and one hairline crack running vertically down left lower corner, following the outline of the stretcher bar verso. Craquelure seen also in the lower center in skin coloured pigment (figures leg).


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Dr Robin Sharwood, Melbourne
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne 1973
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 July 1988, lot 301
Private collection, Melbourne

Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 24 Oct-7 Nov 1973, cat. no. 20 as "Allegorical Composition"

Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O212