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Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny

Australian, 1864–1947
WA-00046360
Paris
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23
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30
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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."

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  • Danaides
    1918 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • The Rape of Persephone
    1913 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Angels Descending
    1897 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Self-portrait
    1920 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Madame Melba
    1902 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • On the beach (Royan)
    1908 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Apollo and Daphne
    1920 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Maenads
    1917 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • Endormies
    1904 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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  • At the Pump
    1908 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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A Cradle Song (Art Institute of Chicago)
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A Cradle Song (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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National Gallery of Victoria Art School
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