Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 409

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887-1973) AUSTRALIA / GREAT BARRIER CORAL REEF. Circa 1935.
39 3/4x25 inches, 101x35 1/2 cm. J. E. Hackett, Melbourne.
Condition B: losses, restored losses, overpainting and restoration in margins and image; skinning and abrasions in image.
"With fellow artist Percy Trompf, Northfield was represented in Australian displays of international travel posters. No other poster artist's works were reproduced in such volume" (Trading Places / Australian Travel Posters p. 28). One of Australia's most renowned attractions, the Great Barrier Reef was the subject of a handful of posters during the 1930s. Percy Trompf, Gert Selheim and Eileen Mayo all designed images focusing on the extraordinary natural beauty of this wonder of the natural world. Northfield p. 52.