b'143836JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887 - 1973),Travel by - TRAIN : Winter in CENTRAL AUSTRALIA,circa 1930s colour lithograph,Commonwealth Railways Poster No.16,printed by A.C. Brooks, Commonwealth Printer, Melbourne.,framed & glazed, overall 109 x 78cm.$8001,200837Charles MEERE (London 1890Sydney, 1961)1788 . 1938150 YEARS OF PROGRESSAUSTRALIA CELEBRATESJanuary 26 . April 25 1938Lithographed and Printed by Hackett Offset Printing Company, Sydney & Melbourne.101 x 64cm; signed and dated 37 in the plate.The English-born Matthew Charles Meere first visited Australia in 1927 to work as a graphic designer. Having studied art in France and England and served in World War I, Meere pursued further study in design and mural painting at Londons Royal College of Art. He then emigrated to Australia with his second wife in 1933 to continue his career as a designer in tandem with his fine art practice.Teaching drawing at East Sydney Technical College brought him into contact with the next generation of young Australian artists and by 1938, when he won the Sir John Sulman Prize for his piece Atalantas Eclipse, Meere was already well established on the local art scene. His poster for the 1938 Sydney Games, rarely seen on the market, brings over $5,000 in good condition.$1,2001,500 838VICTORIAN RAILWAYS TRAVEL POSTER,Gert SELLHEIM, 836(Estonia, Australia, 1901-1970).THE GRAMPIANS Victoria Australia,c1939 colour process lithograph, signed in image lower right,101 x 63cm. Linen-backed.Text continues Victorian Railways Australia. Poster no. 177. Take a Kodak.Sellheim studied architecture in Berlin, Munich and Graz before travelling to London in the 1920s. He migrated to Australia arriving in Fremantle in January 1926. After a year of labouring in rural WA he gained employment as a site architect at the University of Western Australia. In 1930 Sellheim moved to Melbourne where he set up his own architectural practice and began designing and exhibiting posters. His designs were unusual for the time. With bold use of photomontage, drawings and the juxtaposition of hand-lettering and commercial type text they were at the cutting edge of graphic design. In 1939 he was commissioned to decorate the Government tourist Bureau in Melbourne, producing a large scale mural using flat colour and photomontage. This work was awarded the 1939 Sulman Prize.From the 1940s Sellheim created posters for Qantas Empire Airways, including the distinctive flying kangaroo logo. He was also noted for his interest in Aboriginal art and he incorporated Aboriginal-derived motifs frequently in his work.During WWII Sellheim was classified by Australian authorities as an enemy alien and was sent to an internment camp in Victoria in 1943. After intervention from his family he was released to do military work. Ironically he was sent to work on the conversion of metric to imperial measurements of armaments.$1,2001,500838'