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CHESLEY BONESTELL (1888-1986)
THE 1976 VOYAGER MISSION ARRIVES AT SATURN, 16 JANUARY 1980
signed Chesley Bonestell (lower left)
oil on board
1634 × 1814 in. (42.5 × 46.4 cm.)
Executed in summer of 1975.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 12 October 2016, lot 71035.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
"Cover by Chesley Bonestell," Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1977 (Schuetz 451).
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Lot Essay

Cover art for the "25th Anniversary All-Star Issue" of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine.

According to notes made on the verso by Bonestell and members of his business, this image was painted in the summer of 1975 especially for this issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The Voyager probes were launched a few months behind schedule but Voyager 1 began taking pictures of Jupiter in January of 1979. Voyager's close-up images of Saturn's rings were seen for the first time in November of 1980.

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