Rupert Bunny

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Self-portrait, 1895

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (29 September 1864 – 25 May 1947) was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian."[1]

Life and Work

Bunny was the third son of a Victorian County Court judge, Brice Frederick Bunny, and Marie Hedwig Dorothea Wulsten. He travelled to England in 1884 and studied at Calderon's art school in London. After 18 months he went to Paris to study at the atelier of Jean-Paul Laurens.

Between 1893 and 1907, he was a frequent visitor to the Étaples art colony and has left some memorable paintings, among them the atmospheric Light on the Canche and Rainy Weather at Étaples, now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Both these date from 1902, the year he married Jeanne Heloise Morel, a former art student and model, who appeared frequently in his paintings. Bunny continued to live in France until 1911, when he returned to Australia for a visit. For a number of years afterwards he travelled back and forth between Australia and France. After his wife died in 1933, he returned permanently to Australia and settled in South Yarra, Victoria.[2]

Gallery

  • Bunny pastorale.jpg

    Pastorale, 1893

  • Rupert Bunny - Endormies - Google Art Project.jpg

    Endormies, ca 1904

  • Rupert Bunny, Summer Time, c. 1907. Art Gallery of New South Wales.jpg

    Summer Time, 1907

  • Rupert Bunny - Who comes? - Google Art Project.jpg

    Who comes? ca 1908

  • Rupert Bunny - The Nymph of Salmacis (1919).jpg

    The Nymph of Salmacis, 1919

References

  1. ↑ Deborah Edwards, "Rupert Bunny – An Exotic in the History of Australian Art" in Look magazine (Art Gallery Society of New South Wales), November 2009, pp. 28–32
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External links

Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

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