?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887-1973)
AUSTRALIA / KOALA (NATIVE BEAR). 1931.
39 3/4x24 1/2 inches, 101x62 1/4 cm. J.E. Hackett, Melbourne. Condition B+ / B: replaced right margin; replaced losses in margins; repaired tears and restoration in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired pin holes in corners.
"Northfield was one of Australia's most successful and well-known commercial artists between the early 1920s and the late 1950s . . . Northfield's training as a colour lithographer, his excellent sense of design and an ability to understand and appeal to his audience enabled him to prosper from the extraordinary growth in advertising experienced in Australia after World War I" (Northfield p. 1). Many of his posters featured indigenous Australian wildlife: kangaroos, koalas, parrots, and various flora. Northfield p. 53, Trading Places 9.
