Lot 269
  • 269

Elioth Gruner

Estimate
28,000 - 38,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Elioth Gruner
  • MYSTIC DAWN
  • Signed and dated E. GRUNER 1916 (lower right); signed and titled Elioth Gruner, MYSTIC DAWN on stretcher bar on reverse
  • Oil on canvas
  • 40 by 50cm

Provenance

Australian paintings, Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney, 19 September 2006 lot 229
Private collection Sydney; purchased from the above

Exhibited

Private Collection, N.S.W. Exhibited: Sydney, Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition,. National Art Gallery of N.S.W, April 17 - May 31, 1940, cat.121

Condition

Top left, lower left and lower right there are pin holes evident. Faint stretcher bar marks on the left and right hand side. There is a small area of retouching upper left approximately 7mm by 3mm confirmed by UV inspection. The work would benefit from a light surface clean. This work is not lined and has the original stretcher.
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