Lot 44
  • 44

Rupert Bunny

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 AUD
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Description

  • Rupert Bunny
  • PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE
  • Signed Rupert CW Bunny (lower right)

  • Oil on canvas
  • 40 by 32cm

Provenance

Sir Leon and Lady Trout
Private collection
Fine Australian and European Paintings, Sotheby's, Sydney, 16 August 1999, lot 20
Private collection, Sydney; purchased from the above

Exhibited

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

Literature

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

Condition

This work has not been lined and has the original stretcher. There are no visible defects. UV inpsection confirms there has been no retouching.
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