ELIOTH GRUNER
1882-1939
Spring Time in Devon 1924
Estimate $40,000 – $50,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
ELIOTH GRUNER
1882-1939
Spring Time in Devon 1924
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'E. GRUNER / 1924' lower right
51 x 61.5 cm
- Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
- $48,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
The artist's ledger (cat. no. 284), as 'Devon Pasture'
The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Mr C.A. Shepherd, Sydney, acquired from the above
The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Mr Warwick Fairfax, Sydney, acquired from the above in May 1945
Private Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
(Probably) Water-Colours and Oils by Leading Australian Artists, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 13 October 1925, no. 32, 'Pastoral Scene in Devon', 160 gns
'110 Years of Australian Art': An Exhibition of the Art of Australia – Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture – Since 1840, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, September 1950, no. 62
Literature
(Probably) 'Art Notes. Water Colors and Oils by Australian Artists', The Age, Melbourne, 13 October 1925, p. 16
(Probably) J. S. MacDonald, 'Work of Herbert, Lindsay and Gruner', The Herald, Melbourne, 14 October 1925
Norman Lindsay, Elioth Gruner, The Shepherd Press, Sydney, 1947, plate 12 (illustrated)
We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Steven Miller in cataloguing this work.
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