Wallflowers c.1927
oil on canvas laid on board
signed lower right: N. GURDON
artist's name and title inscribed on gallery label verso
38.5 x 28.5cm
Estimate $2,000 - $4,000
The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Norah Gurdon, Athenaeum Art Gallery, Melbourne, 27 April - 7 May 1927
Miss Gurdon's Landscapes, The Australasian, Melbourne, 7 May 1927, p. 49
"Miss Norah Gurdon's best works are to be found among the studies of flowers and still life, which, with many paintings of landscape, are hung at the Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne. In them richness of colour and vigorous brushwork are seen, and "Wallflowers," "Zinnias," "Against the Screen," and "Mantelpiece Corner" may be mentioned as especially strong in these qualities."
Women Artists
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8821
6:00pm - 14 September 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Friday 11 - Sunday 13 September, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Road, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
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hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au
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