Rupert BUNNY
St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1864 – 1947
- Movements: England and France 1884-1933
Nocturne
[The distant song I]
c.1908 Paris, Île-de-France, Ville de Paris department, France
Painting, oil on canvas
Primary Insc: signed in oil 'Rupert C W Bunny' lower left. not dated
220.8 h x 180.5 w cm
Framed 243.7 h x 203.7 w x 10.0 d cm
Cat Raisonné: Eagle(1991),12
Purchased 1976
Accession No: NGA 76.90.1
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Rupert BUNNY
St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1864 – 1947
- Movements: England and France 1884-1933
Nocturne
[The distant song I]
c.1908 Paris, Île-de-France, Ville de Paris department, France
Painting, oil on canvas
Primary Insc: signed in oil 'Rupert C W Bunny' lower left. not dated
220.8 h x 180.5 w cm
Framed 243.7 h x 203.7 w x 10.0 d cm
Cat Raisonné: Eagle(1991),12
Purchased 1976
Accession No: NGA 76.90.1
Exhibition History
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- 2009
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- Major retrospective exhibition: Rupert Bunny (1864-1947)
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- National Gallery of Victoria
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- 2007
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- Singing in the heart: music and the art of Rupert Bunny
- Rockhampton Art Gallery
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- 2004
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- The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires NGA
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- 1991
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- Rupert Bunny: An Australian in Paris NGA
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In this dreamy scene three elaborately gowned women with accessories of roses and richly coloured shawls and fans, pose together on a balcony. Nocturne is one of a series of night balcony scenes that Bunny painted which evoke a mood of intimacy and luxurious leisure, of perfume, poetry and distant music. Though ostensibly intimate, the scenario is theatrical.
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010
