River at Suèvres, c.1922

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 November 2025
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Rupert Bunny

(1864 - 1947)
River at Suèvres, c.1922

oil on canvas

59.5 x 73.0 cm

signed with artists' monogram lower left: RCWB
bears inscription verso: River at Suevres

Estimate: 
$30,000 – $40,000
Provenance

Mrs M. G. Sloman, Melbourne
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, lot 283
Private collection, Brisbane

Exhibited

Exhibition of oil paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny, Anthony Hordern and Sons Galleries, Sydney, 8 - 22 September 1925, cat. 12
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny,
 The New Gallery, Melbourne, 1 - 13 November 1926, cat. 9
Probably Exhibition of Paintings by Rupert Bunny, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, 9 - 19 September 1947, cat. 8 (as 'River at Sucures [sic]')

Literature

‘Australian Artist: Pictures of Southern France', The Argus, Melbourne, 2 November 1926, p. 14
‘Art Notes’, The Age, Melbourne, 2 November 1926, p. 7
'A Melbourne Art show', The Bulletin, Sydney, 4 November 1926, p. 36
'MR. BUNNY'S PAINTINGS.', The Australasian, Melbourne, 6 November 1926, p.1243
Turnbull, C., and Buesst, T., The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, p. 74
Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 2, cat. 0555, p. 65