Nov 11, 2011 - Sale 2261

Sale 2261 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EILEEN MAYO (1906-1994) AUSTRALIA. 1957.
39 1/2x25 inches, 100x63 1/2 cm. McLarens & Co., Melbourne.
Condition A / A-: minor restoration at edges; abrasions in image.
This "kangaroo atop a stark desert landscape, and its typography influenced by Aboriginal art, is one of the most notable Australian travel posters ever produced" (Trading Places p. 8). Mayo is best regarded for her rendering of animals which appear in all of the mediums in which she worked. Trading Places p. 16, Lebovic 8.