Lot 20
Portrait de Mme B... c.1914
(also known as Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
oil on canvas
signed lower left: Rupert C W Bunny
217 x 107.5cm
Estimate $300,000 - $400,000
Mrs J. S. Reid (née Hilary Mackinnon), Victoria, the Artist's niece
Private collection, London
Joel Fine Art, 2007
Private collection, Western Australia
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Lyon, 1914, cat. no. 186
Paintings by Rupert Bunny from Private Collections, McClelland Gallery, Victoria, 25 November 1972 - 8 February 1973, cat. no. 21 (as "Portrait of the Artist's Wife")
Le Temps, Paris, 12 April 1914, p. 5 (as "Portrait de Femme en Bleu")
Journal des Debats, Paris, 12 April 1914, p. 4
The British Australasian, London, 14 May 1914, p. 13
Thomas, D., Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. no. O162 (as "Portrait of the Artist's Wife")
Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné in Two Volumes, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 2, p. 46, cat. no. O320
RELATED WORK:
Rupert Bunny, The Artist's Wife Carrying a Fur, oil on canvas, 83.8 x 54.6cm, Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 August 2003, lot 12
A Private Collection of Important Australian Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8793
6:00pm - 25 August 2025
Hawthorn
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CONTACT
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