?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GERT SELLHEIM (1901-1970)
AUSTRALIA / GREAT BARRIER REEF, QUEENSLAND. Circa 1937.
19 3/4x12 1/4 inches, 50x31 cm. F.W. Niven, Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. Condition B / B+: repaired tears, creases, minor abrasions, overpainting and foxing in margins and image.
Sellheim "recreates [the extensive and elaborate Great Barrier Reef] for the passerby in manageable terms: a small school of three angelfish, carefully arranged on the diagonal; four strands of seaweeds, which divide the poster into five neat segments as they rise to the surface, three pristine tropical islands, each with a sole palm tree; and one bright red underwater plant" (Crouse p. 279). This is the smaller format. Monash p. 17, Crouse p. 278.
