LE RETOUR DE PERSÉPHONE, c.1921

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
29 August 2018
34

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

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $9,760 (inc. BP) in Auction 55 - 29 August 2018, Sydney
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