Lot 23
Portrait of Mme B c.1903
oil on canvas
signed lower left: Rupert C W Bunny.
partial unknown label on stretcher bar verso (illeg.)
79.5 x 63.5cm
Estimate $100,000 - $150,000
The F. Behan Collection, Melbourne
Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 October 2007, lot 35A
Private collection, Western Australian
Exposition de Monsieur Rupert C.W Bunny, Galerie Silberberg, Paris, 6 - 26 May 1903, cat. no. 5
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 31 October - 6 December 1903, cat. no. 102
Exposition Rupert Bunny, Henry Graves and Co Ltd, Paris, 3 - 18 March 1905, cat. no. 2 (as "La Femme à l'Écharpe Bleue")
Studio, London, vol. XXIX, August 1903, p. 218
Bouyer, R., Expositions et Concours - Rupert Bunny, Le Bulletin de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, Paris, no. 251, 11 March 1905, p. 77
Gérard-Austin, A., The Greatest Voyage: Australian Painters in the Paris Salons, 1885-1939, doctoral thesis, Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon-Sorbonne, March 2014, vol. 2, pp. 16, 79, 123 (illus.)
Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné in Two Volumes, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 1, p. 117 (illus.), vol. 2, p. 33, cat. no. O199
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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