Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887-1973) AUSTRALIA. Circa 1935.
40 1/4x24 3/4 inches, 102 1/4x63 cm. J.E. Hackett, Melbourne.
Condition A: mounted to paper.
"Australian poster artists occasionally used aboriginal figures in their imagery, usually in the noble savage pose so popular during the thirties with documentary photographers and anthropologists" (Monash p. 8). This image, complete with an aborigine tribesman, a boomerang and a kangaroo, went straight to the heart of the exotic, wild, historical and cultural attractions of the continent. Northfield p. 61, Voyage p. 132.