A MOUNTAIN CASTLE, ITALY, c.1924

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 August 2024
50

ELIOTH GRUNER

(1882 - 1939)
A MOUNTAIN CASTLE, ITALY, c.1924

oil on wood panel

37.5 x 46.0 cm

signed lower right: GRUNER
inscribed with title verso: A Mountain Castle, Italy
bears inscription verso: 18986 / E GRUNER / CAPRI 1924

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
Sold for $25,773 (inc. BP) in Auction 79 - 28 August 2024, Melbourne
Provenance

Elioth Gruner, until at least 1929
Mrs John Maund, Sydney, by 1940
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired in 1982

Exhibited

Salon de la Société National des Beaux Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, 1928
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April – 31 May 1940, cat. 35 (label attached verso, lent by Mrs John Maund)
Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 5 July – 4 August 1940, cat. 13 (lent by Mrs John Maund)
Elioth Gruner 1882 – 1939, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 July – 4 September 1983, cat. 44 (label attached verso, as ‘CAPRI, 1924’)
Director’s Choice, Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, 13 – 30 April, 2013, cat. 64 (as ‘Capri, 1924’)

Literature

Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), 'The Recent Work of Elioth Gruner', Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no. 27, March 1929, pl. 34 (illus. as ‘Capri / Oil painting’)
Campbell, R., ‘The Art of Gruner’, Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 79, 23 May 1940, p. 31