Primary Artist

Rupert Bunny (1864–1947)

Title

Lutte [Wrestling].

Other titles

Phantasy

Date made

1920

Place made

Europe, France, Ile-de-France, Paris View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

monoprint

Technique

monotype, printed in colour, from one zinc plate

Matrix size

24.4 x 34.2 cm (image)

Support

thick off-white wove paper

Support size

29.4 x 39.6 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturers mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

unique impression; no edition

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower left corner within image, 'RCWB' [initials in monogram]. Not dated. Not titled.

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Inscribebed contemporaniously verso lower centre in black pencil, '3'. Inscribed contemporaniously verso lower right corner in black pencil, '95 - Lutte en' [word trimmed off]. Inscribed with framers notes centre right inverted in black pencil, 'HUTCHINSON/ 1703/1285/ D.GREEN MT/133/4 X 107/8. / 173/4 X 14 2/28'.

Subject description

Man (probably Jacob) wrestling with an angel while a group of women look on.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

34357

Accession number

84.2

Accession method

Curator's allowance

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1983/84 (1984-02-14)

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Douglas Carnegie, Hobrook, N.S.W. [Davis Thomas (1970) M 34 as 'Phantasy'. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Carole Kostanich, Sydney, 1984.

Credit line

Purchased 1984

Country of context

Australia

Notes

ANG 68

Creators

BUNNY, Rupert | (1864–1947) Australian | French | Male | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013