Few Australian painters have captured the luminous quality of Sydney Harbour with the quiet authority of Elioth Gruner. Every element — water, foliage, timber, sky — is bound together by light, transforming an everyday harbour scene into something quietly transcendent. Painted ‘en plein air’ during one of the most productive periods of the artist’s career, Cremorne Wharf, Mosman Bay reveals Gr…

Provenance

Thirty Victoria Street Gallery, Sydney; Private collection; Kozminsky Gallery, Melbourne; Savill Gallery, Sydney; Private collection; Christie's, Sydney, 17 August 1999, lot 109; Private collection, London; Bonhams, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 5 May 2026, Lot 46; Private collection, Sydney

Literature

Advertisement for Thirty Victoria Street, Art and Australia, Australia, vol. 16, no. 3, March 1979, p. 197 (illus.)