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| Product: |
BUNNY, Rupert W.C.
BEFORE THE STORM |
| Code: |
PE B4 - Giclee Print |
| Description: |
'Before the Storm' or, 'Avant. l'orage' was also called 'The Forerunners'.
The 130 x 300cm oil on canvas, was first exhibited in Paris at the old
salon of 1894. Then in London at the Royal Academy and later in Bendigo
for the Victorian Gold Jubilee of 1901. It was given to St.Kilda
Council in 1948 in memory of Bunny's father, Judge Frederick Brice
Bunny who was chairman of the Borough of St.Kilda in 1864, the year and
place where Rupert Bunny was born. Tragically the painting was
irreparably damaged in a fire at the St.Kilda Town Hall on 8th april
1991. The charred canvas was stabilised by conservationists to prevent
further deterioration and the remainder of the AUD$ 525,000. insurance
settlement was used to finance a perpetual trust for the sponsorship of
selected contemporary artists.
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was born in St. Kilda, Victoria on 29th
September 1864. His parents encouraged a classical taste for music and
the visual arts amongst Melbourne's elite. He joined the National
Gallery of Victoria's School of Design in 1881, attended St. John's
Wood Art School London in 1884 and moved to Paris in 1886, where he
enjoyed the glamorous social life of 'la belle epoque'.
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Europe, Bunny was Australia's most celebrated artist, attracting
influential patrons including Alfred Felton. In 1895 he married Jeanne
Morel and following her death in 1933, Bunny returned to Melbourne.
Living modestly in dusty, ill-furnished rooms above a newsagency in
Toorak Road, South Yarra, he continued to paint and teach, 'sharing his
capacity for illustration and his delicious facility as a brushman',
until his death on 25th May 1947. |
| Artist: |
BUNNY, Rupert Charles Wulsten |
| Paper Size: |
45.0 x 84.0 |
| Image Size: |
34.3 x 80.0 |
| Catalog Page Number: |
12 |
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