Important Australian + International Fine Art - 29 August 2018 | Sydney
Lot 34
Rupert Bunny
(1864 – 1947)
LE RETOUR DE PERSÉPHONE, c.1921
monotype on paper on card
24.0 x 34.0 cm
Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000
Lot sold: $9,760 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Rupert Bunny
(1864 – 1947)
LE RETOUR DE PERSÉPHONE, c.1921
monotype on paper on card
24.0 x 34.0 cm
signed with artist’s monogram centre left: RCWB
inscribed with title verso: Le Retour de Perséphone
Provenance
Galeries Georges Petit, Paris
Private collection, Normandy, France
Christophe Joron-Derem, Drouot, Paris, 27 June 2018, lot 195
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Exposition Rupert Bunny: Monotypes, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 16 – 31 March 1921, cat. 4
Exposition de Monotypes par Rupert Bunny, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 16 – 30 October 1924, cat. 4
Literature
Thomas, D., The Life and Art of Rupert Bunny: A Catalogue Raisonné, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2017, vol. 1, cat. M56, p. 174