Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
GERT SELLHEIM (1901-1970) SUNSHINE AND SURF / AUSTRALIA. Circa 1936.
39 1/2x24 3/4 inches, 100 1/4x63 cm. Troedel & Cooper, Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne.]
Condition A- / B+: minor repaired tears and restored losses in margins, some slightly into image; repaired pin holes in corners; margins trimmed.
Sellheim's "most famous posters . . . were hard-edged, coloured lithographs that revealed his European training and the influence of cubism. They marked a striking contrast to Percy Trompf's and James Northfield's work in the more conventional illustrative tradition. Trompf and Northfield embellished the Australian landscape; Sellheim represented it" (Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sellheim-gert-hugo-emmanuel-11655). Voyage p. 64, Crouse p. 276.