Title
(Siren)
(circa 1898)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Siren
- Place where the work was made
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Paris
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France
- Date
- (circa 1898)
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour monotype, printed on thick white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 34.6 x 24.9 cm platemark; 49.9 x 32.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed in plate with monogram to print u.r., "RCWB". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1969
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA20.1969
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Rupert Bunny
Works in the collection
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About
Rupert Bunny was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery School under Oswald Campbell and George Folingsby 1881-83. He travelled to Germany and England with his father in 1884 and studied at St Johns Wood Art School under Phillip Calderon, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens, Leon Glaize and Benjamin Constant. One of the most important of Australian expatriates, Bunny remained in Paris, taking part in its artistic and musical life; he did not return permanently to Australia until the death of his French wife in 1932.
An early exponent of the colour monotype, Bunny first exhibited them in London in 1898. He continued to produce monotypes at various times in his life. The technique was popular with many artists in Paris in the 1890s, Edgar Degas in particular. In 1920 Bunny produced over one hundred for Galerie Georges Petit in Paris who exhibited them in 1921 and 1924; when he returned to Australia he brought all those remaining with him and exhibited them in Melbourne and Sydney in 1941 and 1943.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, AGNSW, 1998
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Places
Where the work was made
Paris
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Hand and eye - a survey of artists' materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Various venues, , 1970–1970
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989
Fin de Siècle: posters prints drawings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jan 1994–13 Mar 1994
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Singing in the heart: Music and the art of Rupert Bunny (2007), Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton, 08 Jun 2007–29 Jul 2007
Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Nov 2009–21 Feb 2010
Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 18 Mar 2010–04 Jul 2010
Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 Jul 2010–04 Oct 2010
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Jane Clark, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Rupert Bunny / E. Phillips Fox', pg. 20-31, Sydney, 2002, 142.
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Dennis Colsey, Hand and eye - a survey of artists materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Sydney, 1969, (illus.). cat.no. 43
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Deborah Edwards, Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, Sydney, Sep 1989, 63.
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Deborah Edwards, Look, 'Rupert Bunny: An exotic in the history of Australian art', pg. 28-32, Sydney, Nov 2009, 31 (colour illus.).
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Renée Free, Fin de Siècle, Sydney, Jan 1994.
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 33 (colour illus.). cat.no. 17
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Desmond Macaulay and Bettina Macaulay, Singing in the heart: Music and the art of Rupert Bunny, 'From sea to shore in the early Belle Epoque', pg. 35-45, Queensland, 2007, front cover (colour illus.), 37 (colour illus.), 107. no catalogue numbers
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Denise Mimmocchi, Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris, 'Dreaming before the task of abstraction: Rupert Bunny's monotypes', pg. 133- 155., Sydney, 2009, 135 (colour illus.), 143, 208 (colour illus.). cat.no. 93
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David Thomas, Rupert Bunny, East Melbourne, 1970, 37 (illus.).
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David Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Rupert Bunny', pg. 550-575, Sydney, Oct 1970, 557 (illus.).
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