Elioth Gruner 1882-1939

• Lot Sold $72,000 (Hammer Price)
• $86,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

WINTER SUNLIGHT 1916

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'E GRUNER / 16' lower right
41 X 46CM

PROVENANCE
Dr George H. Abbott, Sydney
E. York Seymour, Sydney
An Important Collection of Splendid Antique and Period Furniture..., James R. Lawson, Sydney, 1-2 March 1967, lot 425, 'Winter Sunlight'
Mr Cecil Green, Sydney
The Estate of the Late Mrs Marjory Green, Sydney

EXHIBITED
Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition, Society's Rooms, Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney, 25 November - December 1916, no.108
Loan Exhibition of Australian Art, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 April - 8 July 1918, no. 137, 'Frosty morning'
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April - 31 May 1940, no. 34, 'Frosty morning'
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 5 July - 4 August 1940, no. 43, 'Frosty morning'
St. Vincent's Hospital Centenary Loan Art Exhibition: Famous Paintings from Australian Homes, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 14-24 May 1957, no. 27, 'The Jacaranda tree'

LITERATURE
Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones (eds), 'Twenty-Five Years of Australian Art', Art in Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1st Series, No. 4, 1918, p. 29 (illustrated), 'Frosty Morning'
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (eds), 'The Art of Elioth Gruner', Art in Australia, Sydney, 1922, plate XII, (illustrated)
Australian Home Beautiful: The Home Pictorial Annual, 1928, p.31, (illustrated)
Illustrated List of Australian Prints Published by Legend Press for School and Home Use, Legend Press, Sydney, c.1948, no. 12 (illustrated)

We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Steven Miller, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in cataloguing this work.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MRS MARJORY GREEN, SYDNEY