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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887-1973) AUSTRALIA. Circa 1935. 39 1/2x24 1/2 inches, 100x62 cm. Condition A-: minor restoration in margins and image; abrasions in image. Matted. Northfield was a prolific poster artist who did work for the Victorian Government Railways and the Australian National Travel Association as well as smaller, local advertisers. "He served his apprenticeship with F.W. Niven, the Melbourne printing firm, as a lithographic artist . . . [and then] set up his own studio in Melbourne in the early 1930s . . .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 p. 28). Northfield p. 11.
