A Cup of Chocolate (also known as At the Table) 1911

Rupert Bunny (1864-1947)

A Cup of Chocolate (also known as At the Table) 1911

oil on canvas
81.5 x 65.0 cm

signed and dated verso: 1911/ Rupert Bunny

Provenance:

Artist's Estate as At the Table (Mrs Bunny) Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Dr Alan Hackett-Jones, Sydney, 1948 Dallhold Investments Pty Ltd, Perth Christie's, Melbourne, 28 July 1992, lot 56 Private collection, Melbourne Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 10 March 2004, lot 35 Private company collection, Melbourne Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 12 September 2007, lot 42 Private collection, Melbourne Menzies, Sydney, 13 September 2012, lot 55 Company collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Possibly Exhibition of Pictures by Rupert Bunny, Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, 24 July-14 August 1911 as The Cup of Tea cat.85

Reference:

Turnbull, C., and Buesst, T., The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948 (illus. pl.25) Bulletin, 8 September, 1948, p.2 Thomas, D., Rupert Bunny, Australian Art Library, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1970, p.116, cat.o119 Financial Review, 14 November 1980, p.42 (illus.) Reddin, C., Rupert Bunny Himself: His Final Year in Melbourne, self-published, 1987, pp.149, 154 De Bussy, D., The Alan Bond Collection of Australian Art, Dallhold Investments, Perth, 1990, p.78 Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny - A Catalogue Raisonné in Two Volumes, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol.I, p.188; vol.II, pp.47-48, cat.o337

Related Works:

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1902, oil on canvas, 81.2 x 65.4 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, 1946

Estimate: $100000 - 140000

Result Hammer: $130000