Lot 219
Lot 219
FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)

A GROUP OF TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS AND PREPARATORY DRAWINGS FOR "CUTAWAY OF THE PASSENGER MOON SHIP'S CREW MODULE"

Price Realised USD 21,420
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FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)

A GROUP OF TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS AND PREPARATORY DRAWINGS FOR "CUTAWAY OF THE PASSENGER MOON SHIP'S CREW MODULE"

Price Realised USD 21,420
Price Realised USD 21,420
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FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)
A GROUP OF TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS AND PREPARATORY DRAWINGS FOR "CUTAWAY OF THE PASSENGER MOON SHIP'S CREW MODULE"
variously signed and inscribed
various mediums
various sizes
Executed circa 1952.
Provenance
Randy Liebermann, Washington, D.C.
Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.
Literature
Willy Ley, "Inside the Moon Ship," Collier's, 18 October 1952, pp. 56-57, illustrated (one work).
Fred Whipple and Wernher von Braun, "Man on the Moon: The Exploration," Collier’s, 25 October 1952, p. 36, illustrated (one work).
Wernher von Braun, Fred Whipple, and Willy Ley, Conquest of the Moon (New York, 1953), p. 45, illustrated (one work).
David A. Hardy, Visions of Space: Artists Journey Through the Cosmos (London, 1989), p. 16, illustrated (one work).
Frederick I. Ordway III, Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection (New York, 2001), p. 136, illustrated (one work).
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