Elioth Gruner (1882-1939)

oil on canvas, signed l.r.c. ‘Gruner, 1929’

Measurements:

49 x 60 cm

Provenance:

John D. Moore, Sydney, by at least 1930-31, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney, c. 1985, Private Collection, Sydney

Reference:

Daryl Lindsay wrote about this work that ‘it looks to me to be the finest thing I have ever seen of his – the far distance is almost worthy of the primitives.’ Letter to Basil Burdett, October 28, 1930. MS 1995.9 John Young and the Macquarie Galleries Papers, Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive, 1/28/1, Literature: Art and Australia, 3rd Series, No.34, October-November 1930, plate 4, Hill E., The Home Pictorial Annual 1931 (Australia Beautiful), p.23, Sands J., Australia Land Of Contrasts, Sydney, 1943, n.p.

• EStimate $20,000 - $30,000
• sold $84,000 Incl BP