Rupert Bunny b. 1864

Also known as Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
  • Artist (Painter)
Australian-born painter Rupert Bunny spent a number of years living and studying in Europe. His work was hung several times in Royal Academy exhibitions in London and in the Paris Salon. Bunny's paintings drew on a wide variety of inspirations from mythology to art nouveau.
Tags: Post-Impressionism, Fauvism

Citations

  • 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT’.

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Edwards, Deborah, with Mimmocchi, Denise, Thomas, David and GeĢrard, Anne (2009), 'Rupert Bunny : artist in Paris’.

  • Thomas, David (1970), 'Rupert Bunny 1864-1947’, Lansdowne, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Davidson, Jim (1990), 'Dame Nellie Melba’, Australian Dictionary of Biography 1891-1939, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Eagle, Mary (1991), 'The Art of Rupert Bunny’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Eagle, Mary (1991), 'Rupert Bunny: An Australian in Paris’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Downer, Lesley (2003), 'Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West’, Gotham Books, New York, USA.

  • (24 April 1896), Sydney Morning Herald, p.6.

  • Spielmann, M. H. (et al) (1898), 'Royal Academy Pictures 1898’, Cassell and Company, London, UK.

  • (25 June 1898), Sydney, NSW : Bulletin, p.13.

Initial data sources

  • National Gallery of Australia