Rupert Bunny: 1864-1947
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few Australian painters achieved the level of international acclaim that Rupert Bunny did, yet his extraordinary legacy remained long overshadowed by his expatriate life in Paris — and David Thomas's authoritative monograph restores this artist to his rightful place in the canon of Australian art. Published as part of the prestigious Lansdowne Australian Art Library series, Rupert Bunny: 1864–1947 chronicles the life and prolific output of one of Australia's most celebrated Belle Époque painters, tracing his journey from Melbourne to the glittering salons of late nineteenth-century Paris, where his luminous, sensuous canvases earned him recognition at the highest levels of European art society. Thomas brings a scholarly yet accessible eye to Bunny's oeuvre, presenting detailed analysis of the artist's signature style — his mastery of light, his debt to Impressionism, and his elegant, figure-driven compositions that place him firmly in conversation with the great European masters of his era. Edited by John Henshaw under the Lansdowne Australian Art Library imprint, the volume stands as both a critical biography and a visual celebration of an artist whose work bridged two worlds. For anyone curious about the forgotten giants of Australian painting, this volume poses an irresistible question: how did a man so celebrated in his own time slip so quietly from memory?
Author: David Thomas
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Lansdowne Australian Art Library
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few Australian painters achieved the level of international acclaim that Rupert Bunny did, yet his extraordinary legacy remained long overshadowed by his expatriate life in Paris — and David Thomas's authoritative monograph restores this artist to his rightful place in the canon of Australian art. Published as part of the prestigious Lansdowne Australian Art Library series, Rupert Bunny: 1864–1947 chronicles the life and prolific output of one of Australia's most celebrated Belle Époque painters, tracing his journey from Melbourne to the glittering salons of late nineteenth-century Paris, where his luminous, sensuous canvases earned him recognition at the highest levels of European art society. Thomas brings a scholarly yet accessible eye to Bunny's oeuvre, presenting detailed analysis of the artist's signature style — his mastery of light, his debt to Impressionism, and his elegant, figure-driven compositions that place him firmly in conversation with the great European masters of his era. Edited by John Henshaw under the Lansdowne Australian Art Library imprint, the volume stands as both a critical biography and a visual celebration of an artist whose work bridged two worlds. For anyone curious about the forgotten giants of Australian painting, this volume poses an irresistible question: how did a man so celebrated in his own time slip so quietly from memory?