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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
JAMES NORTHFIELD (1888-1973) AUSTRALIA. Circa 1932. 40 1/8x25 1/8 inches. J. E. Hackett, Melbourne. Condition A: repaired tear in top margin. "Australian poster artists ocassionally used aboriginal figures in their imagery, usually in the noble savage pose so popular during the thirties with documentary photographers and anthropologists" (Trading Places / Australian Travel Posters 1909-1990, 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. Voyage p. 132.
