Lot 240
Lot 240
JACK COGGINS (1911-2006)

BY SPACESHIP TO THE MOON

Price Realised USD 40,320
Estimate
USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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JACK COGGINS (1911-2006)

BY SPACESHIP TO THE MOON

Price Realised USD 40,320
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Price Realised USD 40,320
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JACK COGGINS (1911-2006)
BY SPACESHIP TO THE MOON
signed JACK COGGINS (lower left)
paint on board
1534 x 11 in. (40 x 27.9 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1951.
Provenance
Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.
Literature
Jack Coggins, Fletcher Pratt, Willy Ley, By Space Ship to the Moon (New York, 1952), front cover, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 86-87, illustrated.
Exhibited
Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000-7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.
Seattle, The Museum of Pop Culture (formerly EMP), Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction, 27 March 2015-31 December 2017.
London, UK, Barbican Centre, Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, 3 June-1 September 2017; also, Athens, Greece, Onassis Cultural Center, 9 October 2017-14 January 2018; Odense, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Brandts, 28 September 2018-17 February 2019; Rotterdam, Netherlands, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 16 March-30 June 2019.
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The cover art for "By Space Ship to the Moon," by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt and published by Random House in 1952.

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