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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  18 Nov 2020 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  19
• Lot Description:
  Rupert Bunny
  (1864-1947)
  Sur Le Tapis De Varech (1913)
  oil on canvas
  58.5 x 63 cm
  signed 'RCWB' lower right
• Provenance:
  Mr Robert Haines, Brisbane; Mrs H.M. Henri, Brisbane; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne; Trevor Bussell Gallery, Sydney; Private Collection, Perth; Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 27 August 2007, lot 85, illustrated; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
• Exhibited:
  Selected Australian Works of Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 11-29 May 1981, no. 25, 'On the Seaweed'; Australian Paintings, Trevor Bussell Fine Art, Sydney, October - November 1985, illustrated
• References:
  Clive Turnbull and Tristan Buesst, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, p. 70, 'By the Sea'; David Thomas, Rupert Bunny, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. no. 0252, 'By the Sea c. 1924'; Mary Eagle, The Art of Rupert Bunny, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1991, pp. 104 (illustrated), 106, 'Sketch for On the Seaweed'; David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O392, p. 52
• Estimate:
  A$65,000 - 85,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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