1925 Antique print, miniature, “Drying Sails”, Elioth Gruner, yachts, Australian framed artwork

Genuine antique 100 year, old rarely offered, miniature colour offset print, produced in a limited quantity for an art journal of the period. A delightful nautical scene, after the painting by renowned Australian artist Elioth Gruner. Entitled “Drying Sails, St Trioez”, the image captures the ephemeral effects of light on the landscape. Framed with solid wood and custom double mount behind glass. 

27cm x 22cm frame

10.5cm x 7.5cm artwork 

“Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner (16 December 1882 – 17 October 1939) was an Australian artist. A successor of the plein air Heidelberg School tradition in Australian art, Gruner is known for his high-key impressionist landscapes and his ability to capture the ephemeral effects of light. According to Norman Lindsay, Gruner "painted the purest light that ever has been seen on a bit of canvas".

Gruner won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting seven times, the most of any Australian artist besides Hans Heysen. One of Gruner's winners of the prize, Spring Frost(1919), has since become his best known work, and is regarded as perhaps the most loved Australian landscape painting in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.”