ELIOTH GRUNER
1882-1939

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR NEVILLE H. GRACE, SYDNEY

ELIOTH GRUNER

1882-1939
Flower Piece 1933

oil on canvas on wood
signed and dated 'GRUNER / 1933' lower right
61 x 45.7 cm

• Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
• $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Saul Symonds, Sydney
Mrs Naomi Hoenig, London
Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, 20 April 2010, lot 41, illustrated
Mr Neville Grace, Sydney, acquired from the above
Private Collection, by descent from the above

Exhibited

Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 5 October 1934, no. 133
(Probably) First Exhibition of the Australian Academy of Art, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 8-19 April 1938, no. 86
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April – 31 May 1940, no. 135 (label verso)
Exhibition of Paintings, Great Synagogue War Memorial Centre, Sydney, 6 March 1960, no. 3
Elioth Gruner 1883-1939, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 July – 4 September 1983, no. 66 (label verso)
Presenting Australian Art 1938-1941, S. H. Ervin Museum and Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 6 July 1986, no. AAA21

Literature

John Banks, 'Some Impressions of the Art Show', The Sydney Mail, Sydney, 12 September 1934, p. 40
'The Society of Artists', The Sydney Mail, Sydney, 19 September 1934, p. 15
Barry Pearce, Elioth Gruner 1882-1939, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983, p. 53 (illustrated)
Geoffrey Batchen, 'Gruner in Retrospect', Art Network, Spring 1983, No. 11, p. 10 (illustrated)