Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

GERT SELLHEIM (1901-1970)

AUSTRALIA / GREAT BARRIER REEF, QUEENSLAND. Circa 1937.


19¾x12½ inches, 50x31¾ cm. F.W. Niven, Pty. Ltd., Melbourne.
Condition A-: archival tape-repaired tear at lower right edge, slightly into image; minor tears and creases in margins; minor creases in image; unobtrusive horizontal fold. Paper.

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.