?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
EILEEN MAYO (1906-1994)
AUSTRALIA / THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. Circa 1956.
39 1/2x25 inches, 100 1/2x64 cm. McLarens & Co., Melbourne. Condition B+: repaired tears, small replaced losses, creases, abrasions and time-staining in margins.
A vibrant and exotic view of "Longspined Butterfly-fish & Heron Island Volute," as well as some of the bright coral that inhabits the Great Barrier Reef. One of Australia's most renowned attractions, the Great Barrier Reef was the subject of a handful of posters during the 1930s. Percy Trompf and Gert Selheim both designed images focusing on the extraordinary beauty of this wonder of the natural world. Lebovic 10.
