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CHESLEY BONESTELL (1888-1986)

DESCENDING TOWARD THE MOON

    Price Realised USD 126,000
    Estimate
    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000
    Closed: 12 Sep 2024
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    CHESLEY BONESTELL (1888-1986)

    DESCENDING TOWARD THE MOON

    Price Realised USD 126,000
    Closed: 12 Sep 2024
    Price Realised USD 126,000
    Closed: 12 Sep 2024
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    CHESLEY BONESTELL (1888-1986)
    DESCENDING TOWARD THE MOON
    signed Chesley Bonestell (lower left)
    oil on board
    131⁄4 x 16 in. (33.7 x 40.6 cm.) (sight)
    Executed circa 1951.
    Provenance
    Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), Huntsville, Alabama.
    Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama; acquired from the estate of the above, May 1979.
    Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.
    Literature
    Wernher von Braun, "Man on the Moon: The Journey," Collier’s, 18 October 1952, p. 58, illustrated (Schuetz 96).
    Wernher von Braun, Fred Whipple, and Willy Ley, Conquest of the Moon (New York, 1953), p. 63, illustrated (Schuetz 117).
    Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III, The Art of Chesley Bonestell (London, 2001), p. 180, illustrated.
    Frederick I. Ordway III, Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection (New York, 2001), p. 137, illustrated.
    Exhibited
    Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, Imagined Futures: Science Fiction, Art, and Artifacts from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, 7 April-10 July 2016.
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