?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GERT SELLHEIM (1901-1970) THE SEASIDE CALLS / GO BY TRAIN / TAKE A "KODAK." Circa 1938. 39 1/2x24 3/4 inches, 100 1/4x63 cm. F.W. Niven Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. Condition B+ / B: overpainting and discoloration along repaired tear at bottom edge through central image; repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; minor restored losses at edge; foxing in image. "The essentials of the assigned message . . . [are] expressed with succinct artistry . . . the composition - the breaking blue wave paralleled by the tanned and toned diver - builds anticipation by withholding the moment of entry into the surf from the viewer" (Crouse p. 279). Crouse p. 280.
