Nov 15, 2010 - Sale 2230

Sale 2230 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PERCY TROMPF (1902-1964) AUSTRALIA / TALLEST TREES IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Circa 1935.
38 3/4x23 3/4 inches, 98 1/2x60 1/2 cm.
Condition A. Matted.
One of Australia's most prolific and most celebrated poster designers, Trompf is attributed as designer of "thousands of advertising posters" (Australian Travel Posters p. 29). Known for his "bright, colorful and optimistic images," Trompf also utilized "natural images . . . to beguile both domestic and international tourists to various regions of Australia" (Ibid p. 29-30). This is the larger of two formats. Monash 50.