THE POPLARS, c.1926
ELIOTH GRUNER
oil on wood panel
36.0 x 46.0 cm
signed lower right: GRUNER
probably: Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
Mrs John W. Maund, Sydney
Australian Art Auctions, Sydney, 25 November 1985, lot 130
Private collection, Sydney
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Elioth Gruner, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 December 1932 – 21 February 1933, cat. 31 (as ‘The Two Poplars’)
Elioth Gruner 1882 – 1939, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 July – 4 September 1983, cat. 50 (label attached verso)
Elioth Gruner: The Texture of Light, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 8 March – 22 June 2014; Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 26 July – 26 October 2014
Ure Smith, S. and Gellert, L. (eds.), ‘The Recent Works of Elioth Gruner’, Art in Australia, Sydney, March 1929, 3rd series, no. 27, pl. 29 (illus.)
Pearce, B., Elioth Gruner, 1882-1939, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1983, cat. 50, p. 47
Australian Art Auction Records 1984–1987, Australian Art Sales, Sydney, 1987, p. 146 (illus.)
Clark, D., Elioth Gruner: The Texture of Light, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 2014, pp. 45 (illus.), 46, 96
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.