Rupert Bunny (1864 - 1947)

STUDY FOR ‘SUMMER TIME’, c.1907

oil on board

36.0 x 44.5 cm
49.0 x 57.5 cm (frame)

signed and inscribed lower right: TO MY FRIEND MARIE TUCK / A SOUVENIER OF RUPERT C W BUNNY

Marie Tuck, Paris/Adelaide
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private Collection, Victoria, acquired from the above on 22 October 1979

Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 7 – 30 October 1979, cat. 56 (as ‘Sketch for Summer Time’)

Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny, A Catalogue Raisonné in Two Volumes, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, Volume 2: cat. O240, p. 38 (as ‘Composition Study for ‘Summer Time’’)

Summer Time, c.1907, oil on canvas, 250.0 x 300.5 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales