Lot 241
Lot 241
KENNETH S. FAGG (1901-1980)

UNDERSEA CITIES

Price Realised USD 13,860
Estimate
USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
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KENNETH S. FAGG (1901-1980)

UNDERSEA CITIES

Price Realised USD 13,860
Price Realised USD 13,860
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KENNETH S. FAGG (1901-1980)
UNDERSEA CITIES
signed Fagg (lower center)
tempera on paper
1334 x 1914 in. (34.9 x 49 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1953.
Provenance
Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.
Literature
If: Worlds of Science Fiction magazine, January 1954, vol. 2, no. 6, front cover, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), p. 59, 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, Washington, The Museum of Pop Culture (formerly EMP), June 2004-July 2010.
Seattle, Washington, 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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