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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Nov 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  47
• Lot Description:
  Rupert Bunny
  (1864-1947)
  La Toison d'Or (circa 1917) The Golden Fleece
  oil on canvas
  52.5 x 80 cm
  signed 'RCWB' lower left
  EXHIBITED: Exposition de l'American Art Association, Galerie Brunner, Paris, March 1918, 'La ConquÍte de la Tosion d'Or'; Salon d'Automne, Paris, 15 November 1919, no. 274, 'La Tosion d'Or'; Rupert Bunny, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 2-15 May 1922, no. 36; Exhibition of Paintings by Rupert C.W. Bunny, Hogan's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 23 September - 10 October 1936, no. 32, 'The Golden Fleece'; Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 November 2009 - 21 February 2010; The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 26 March - 4 July 2010; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 July - 4 October 2010, illustrated. REFERENCES: Mercure de France, Paris, 16 March 1918, pp. 321-322; David Thomas, Rupert Bunny, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. no. O191; Deborah Edwards with Denise Mimmocchi, David Thomas and Anne Gérard, Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009, pp. 115 (illustrated), 125, 205 (illustrated); 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. 19, 85, 132 (illustrated); David Thomas, The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Vol. 2, cat. no. O482, pp. 59, 198
• Provenance:
  Rupert Bunny, Paris; Private Collection; Private Collection, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above; Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 26 November 2007, lot 36, illustrated; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
• Estimate:
  A$60,000 - 80,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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