Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947) - Intruders (c1894)
Another painting that seems to be lost except for this black and white photo, but I've found a written review which includes a description of the original colours for your enlightenment and edification:
"It is a good thing for an exhibition to have on its walls one picture which arrests the attention, excites curiosity and remark, without necessarily evoking admiration. 'The Intruders', by Mr. R, C. W. Bunny, reproduced on this page, fulfils these conditions thoroughly.
What we see is this: a blue sea under a blue sky, against which rise tall white cliffs in flaring sunlight; under their shelter float two galleys of antique form, vermilion-prowed and green-hulled, while from the nearer a net stretches shoreward, upheld by two figures, mid-high in water, one in sunlight, the other in shadow. The latter is confronted by two beings of ghastly, livid hue - mermen or some such strange creation, who lean over a low rock and examine him inquiringly. Here is no dreamy, vague suggestion; no vaporous environment softens the crude green and red of the boats, or tempers the blinding glare of the white cliffs against the deep blue sky; all is made out with startling vividness, and not a little power is shown in the relations of flesh in sunshine and shadow; but even with execution so deliberate the artist's intention remains an unsolved enigma, and the result is more startling than satisfactory."
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947) - Intruders (c1894)
Another painting that seems to be lost except for this black and white photo, but I've found a written review which includes a description of the original colours for your enlightenment and edification:
"It is a good thing for an exhibition to have on its walls one picture which arrests the attention, excites curiosity and remark, without necessarily evoking admiration. 'The Intruders', by Mr. R, C. W. Bunny, reproduced on this page, fulfils these conditions thoroughly.
What we see is this: a blue sea under a blue sky, against which rise tall white cliffs in flaring sunlight; under their shelter float two galleys of antique form, vermilion-prowed and green-hulled, while from the nearer a net stretches shoreward, upheld by two figures, mid-high in water, one in sunlight, the other in shadow. The latter is confronted by two beings of ghastly, livid hue - mermen or some such strange creation, who lean over a low rock and examine him inquiringly. Here is no dreamy, vague suggestion; no vaporous environment softens the crude green and red of the boats, or tempers the blinding glare of the white cliffs against the deep blue sky; all is made out with startling vividness, and not a little power is shown in the relations of flesh in sunshine and shadow; but even with execution so deliberate the artist's intention remains an unsolved enigma, and the result is more startling than satisfactory."