RUPERT CHARLES WULSTEN BUNNY (1864-1947)

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947)
Sur L'Ain, c.1898
signed with initials ‘CRWB’ (lower left), inscribed 'S. 51 / sur l’ain’ in pencil on the stretcher, further inscribed 'L'ain ...' on the upper stretcher, stencilled ‘15’ on the stretcher, a label numbered ‘no 92’ attached to stretcher, with colourman stamp ’54 RUE N.D. DES CHAMPS PARIS / PAUL FOINET / TOILES COULEURS FINES’ on the verso
oil on canvas
25⅝ x 21¼in. (65.1 x 54cm.)

Provenance:
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne.
Private collection, Perth.
Anon. sale, Bonhams Sydney, 19 Nov. 2012, lot 38.
Private collection, England.

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Silberberg, Exposition Rupert Bunny, ?-26 May 1903, cat.25.
Paris, Galerie Henry Graves, Exposition Rupert Bunny, 3-18 March 1905, cat.12.
(probably) Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Exposition de peintures par Rupert C W Bunny, Jan. 1926, cat.8 (as ‘L’Ain à Champagnole’).
Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, Winter Exhibition 1973: Recent Acquisitions, 18 July-2 Aug. 1973, cat.11 (as ‘French Landscape’).

Literature:
The present picture will be included in David Thomas's forthcoming The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonne, cat.O108 (to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2017).

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