Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JAMES NORTHFIELD AUSTRALIA.
40x25 inches. Northfield Studios & F. W. Niven Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. Circa 1930.
Condition A-: minor restoration and creases at edges.
An elegant and peaceful landscape of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales. 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." (Trading Places / Australian Travel Posters p. 28)