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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection | A Curated Salon
• Sale Date:
  23 Apr 2023 ~ 2pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  41
• Lot Description:
  Rupert Bunny
  (1864-1947)
  Étude, c.1904, also known as Lady Playing the Piano
  oil on canvas
  50.0 x 79.5cm (19 11/16 x 31 5/16in).
  signed lower left: 'R.C.W. Bunny'
• Provenance:
  Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 28 May 1980, lot 733 (illus.); The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Exposition Rupert Bunny, Henry Graves and Co Ltd, Paris, 3 - 18 March 1905, cat. 4, as L'Étude; Faces in the Crowd: An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Woolloomooloo Gallery, Sydney, Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Queensland, 2 - 28 November 1992, cat. 23, then touring; Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, 9 December 1992 - 3 January 1993; Singing in the Heart: Music and the Art of Rupert Bunny, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, 8 June - 29 July 2007
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Raymond Bouyer, 'Expositions et Concours - Rupert Bunny', Le Bulletin de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, Paris, No. 251, 11 March 1905, p. 77 ; Desmond MacAulay, Singing in the Heart: Music and the Art of Rupert Bunny, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, 2007, pp. 56, 59-60 (illus.); Deborah Edwards, Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009, p. 21; David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonne, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 2, cat. O219, p. 36
• Estimate:
  A$50,000 - 70,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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