Rupert Bunny
(1864 - 1947)
Orchard in springtime, c.1923
oil on canvas
54.0 x 65.5 cm
signed with artists' monogram lower left: RCWB
bears inscription on stretcher verso: Spring
Estimate:
$30,000 - $40,000
Sold:
$61,364 (inc. BP)
lot details
Rupert Bunny (1864 - 1947)
Orchard in springtime, c.1923
oil on canvas
54.0 x 65.5 cm
signed with artists' monogram lower left: RCWB
bears inscription on stretcher verso: Spring
bears inscription on stretcher verso: Spring
Provenance
Mrs E Ward-Thomas, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection
Sotheby’s, 30 April 2002, Melbourne, lot 132
Private collection, Brisbane
Exhibited
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1 – 14 September 1982, cat. 28 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Thomas, D., Rupert Bunny 1864 – 1947, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, cat. 0505, n.p.
Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 2, cat. 0611, pp. 68 – 69