Portrait of the Artist's Wife c1910

Rupert Bunny (1864-1947)

Portrait of the Artist's Wife c1910

oil on canvas
41.5 x 33.5 cm

signed lower right: Rupert C W Bunny

Provenance:

Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Brisbane

Private collection

Sotheby's, Sydney, 16 August 1999, lot 20

Private collection, Sydney

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 August 2009, lot 44

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Portraits from the Collection of Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 22 September - 20 October 1979, cat.8

Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, cat.1

Australian Artists Abroad 1830-1960, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 14 June - 12 July 1990; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 31 July - 17 August 1990, cat.21 (illus. exhibition catalogue)

Reference:

Rainbird, S., Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, pp.12, 28 (illus. p.29, pl.1)

Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol.2, p.46, cat.O318 (as Head Study for Une Nuit de Canicule, also known as Portrait of the Artist's Wife)

Related Works:

Study for Une Nuit de Canicule c1910, oil on canvas, 38.0 x 46.0 cm, private collection, Melbourne; referenced in Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol.2, p.46, cat.O317

Une Nuit de Canicule c1910, oil on canvas, 227.0 x 249.0 cm, destroyed in a fire, London; referenced in Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol.2, p.46, cat.O319

Estimate: $50000 - 70000

Result Hammer: $50000