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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
PERCIVAL ALBERT (PERCY) TROMPF (1902-1964) STILL BUILDING - AUSTRALIA. 1930. 39 1/4x49 1/4 inches, 99 3/4x125 cm. Moore-Young, Melbourne. Condition B+ / B: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; restoration in margins and corners. The Sydney Harbor Bridge was constructed between 1923 and 1932. Influenced by the design of New York City's Hellgate Bridge, the bridge is the world's tallest steel arch bridge and among the world's top ten longest spanning arch bridges. With eight lanes, it is also one of the widest. Although the Great Depression struck in the middle of construction, the building continued, employing over a thousand men in the process. Not only was it an economic lifeline for the city at the time, but perhaps more importantly, served as a rising beacon of hope for the city and as a national showpiece for the world. The bridge was "the greatest engineering challenge of its day anywhere on earth. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. It not only altered the life of a city forever, it became a symbol of a bold, young nation and a changing world" (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/constructingaustralia/thebridge/synopsis.htm). It captured the imagination of the world and was used extensively in international promotion of Australia to the rest of the world becoming a part of the country's iconography. This poster, with its optimistic subtitle ("still building-Australia") is considered one of Trompf's most popular. Monash 6.
