?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
GERT SELLHEIM (1901-1970) GREAT BARRIER REEF, QUEENSLAND / AUSTRALIA. 1937. 39 3/4x24 3/4 inches, 101x63 cm. F.W. Niven Pty. Ltd., [Melbourne.] Condition B+ / B: repaired tears, restored losses, abrasions and overpainting 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 larger format. Monash p. 17, Crouse p. 278.
