SEPTEMBER MORNING, 1926

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 November 2018
32

ELIOTH GRUNER

(1882 – 1939)
SEPTEMBER MORNING, 1926

oil on plywood

29.0 x 24.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: GRUNER / 1926

Estimate: 
$20,000 – 30,000
Sold for $51,240 (inc. BP) in Auction 56 - 28 November 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Edwin Geach, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1926
possibly: R. G. Smith, Brisbane, 1953
William S. Ellenden, Sydney, 11 August 1987, lot 92 (as ‘September Morn’)
Jan Taylor, Sydney
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Elioth Gruner, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 21 August 1926, cat.8,(as ‘Still morning’)
Society of Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 10 September – 2 October 1926, cat. 73 (n.f.s.)
possibly: Loan Paintings from Brisbane Private Collections, Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, 20 May – 21 June 1953, cat. 71 (as ‘Misty morn’)
Fine Australian Paintings: 1815-1965, Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 29 October – 21 November 1987, cat. 48 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘September morning’)

Literature

‘Oil Paintings. Mr. Gruner’s Exhibition’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 August 1926, p. 10
Galway, G., ‘Apostle of Light. Gruner’s Landscapes’, Evening News, Sydney, 12 August 1926, p. 19


We are grateful to Steven Miller, Head of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library and Archive, for his assistance in cataloguing this work.