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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  18 Nov 2020 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  15
• Lot Description:
  Rupert Bunny
  (1864-1947)
  Portrait of Mlle Morel (1895)
  oil on canvas
  185 x 90 cm
  signed and inscribed 'Rupert C.W. Bunny / Paris' lower left
  PROVENANCE: Rupert Bunny, Melbourne; Mr and Mrs Tristan Buesst, Melbourne, by descent from the above; Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne (stock 4136); Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Brisbane, acquired from the above on 31 July 1974; The Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Christie's Australia, Brisbane, 6 June 1989, lot 180, illustrated; John Schaeffer, Sydney, acquired from the above; The Collection of John Schaeffer at Rona, Christie's Australia, Sydney, 15 May 2004, lot 470, 'Jeanne Morel', illustrated; Private Collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Salon de 1895, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1 May - 30 June 1895, no. 328, 'Portrait de Mlle MÖ'; Paintings by Rupert C.W. Bunny, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 1-12 March 1927, no. 1, 'Portrait, Miss M.'; Paintings by Rupert Bunny from Private Collections, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, 25 November 1972 - 8 February 1973, no. 18; Winter Exhibition 1974: Recent Acquisitions, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 15-31 July 1974, no. 20, 'Portrait of Jeanne Morel', illustrated; Portraits from the Collection of Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 22 September - 20 October 1979, no. 6; Gifts from the Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1984, no. 7; Australian Paintings & Sculpture 1895-2002 and the European Influence, Nevill Keating Pictures, London, July - August 2002, no. 5, illustrated REFERENCES: Journal des Débats, Paris, 30 April 1895, p. 2; Gustave Geffroy, La Vie Artistique, fourth series, E. Dentu, Paris, 1895, p. 299; Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, p. 73, 'Portrait of the Artist's Wife'; David Thomas, Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. O19, 'Portrait of Jeanne Morel', p. 44; The Australian, Sydney, 10-11 June 1989, p. 28 (illustrated); Colette Reddin, Rupert Bunny Himself: His Final Years in Melbourne, Colette Reddin, Melbourne, 1987, p. 148; Mary Eagle, The Art of Rupert Bunny in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1991, p. 10 (illustrated); The Bulletin, Sydney, 9 September 2003, p. 65 (illustrated); Deborah Edwards, Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009, pp. 28 (illustrated), 86; Anne Gérard-Austin, The Greatest Voyage: Australian Painters in the Paris Salons, 1885-1939, a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Cotutelle Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Art History and Theory, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Ecole Doctorale 441 Historie de l'art, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, March 2014, Vol. 2, pp. 15, 78, 121 (illustrated); David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 1, p. 80 (illustrated), Vol. 2, cat. no. O73, 'Portrait of Jeanne Morel', p. 21
• Estimate:
  A$800,000 - 1,200,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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