Rupert Bunny
Sumptuous colorist of ideal themes
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, 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."
Artworks by this artist
- A summer morning 1897
- On the beach (Royan) circa 1908
- Vaudvilles and other things by Bunny 1900-1910
- Summer time circa 1907
- Tritons circa 1890
- Sea Idyll Ca 1891
- Femme Lisant
- Angels Descending circa 1897
- Bal Masquée