Elioth Gruner 1882-1939

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $60,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

SEA AND SUNSHINE 1926

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'GRUNER / 1926' lower right
frame: original, S.A. Parker Sydney
50.5 X 61CM

PROVENANCE
Mr R.R. Dangar, Sydney
Valuable Art Effects and Fine Household Appointments, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 24-25 July 1951, lot 312, 'Sea and sunlight - Tamarama'
Private Collection
Fine Australian Painting, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 22 November 1972, lot 51, illustrated
Mr Cecil Green, Sydney
The Estate of the Late Mrs Marjory Green, Sydney

EXHIBITED
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Elioth Gruner, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10-21 August 1926, no.28
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Elioth Gruner, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 December 1932 - 21 February 1933, no. 41, 'Sea and Sunlight'
150 Years of Australian Art, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 January - 25 April 1938, no. 708
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April - 31 May 1940, no. 140, 'Tamarama'
Art of Australia 1788-1941: An Exhibition of Australian Art Held in the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada under the Auspices of the Carnegie Corporation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1-16 October 1941, then travelling, no. 74

LITERATURE
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (eds), 'The Recent Work of Elioth Gruner', Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, No. 27, March 1929, plate 14, 'Sea and sunlight'

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