Boats Preparing to Leave (Etaples) c1895

RUPERT BUNNY (1864-1947, Australian, French)

Boats Preparing to Leave (Etaples) c1895

oil on canvas on board
50.5 x 73.0 cm

Provenance:
Sotheby's Melbourne, 21 April 1986, lot 33, as 'The Fishing Fleet', illus.
Estate of Mr Anthony Joyce, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, July 1911, cat.25, Boats Preparing to Leave

Reference:
Moore, W., A painter of beautiful women: the remarkable record of Rupert Bunny’s life, Sydney, 1911, p.252, illus, as Fishing Boats at Étaples
Turnbull, C., & Buesst, T., The Art of Rupert Bunny, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1948, p.75, as ‘The Fishing Fleet’,
Thomas, D., Rupert Bunny 1864-1947, Lansdowne Australian Art Library, 1970. cat. O63e

Estimate: $15000 - 20000

Result Hammer: $14000