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FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988)
A PORTION OF THE WHEEL-SHAPED SPACE STATION IN CUTAWAY
signed Fred Freeman (lower right)
paint on board
1858 × 2814 in. (47.3 × 71.9 cm.)
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, "A Station in Space," Collier's, 22 March 1952, pp. 30-31. A copy of the magazine is included with the lot.
Frederick I. Ordway III and Randy Liebermann, Blueprint for Space: Science Fiction to Science Fact, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991, pp.140-141 (illustrated).
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Original cut-away artwork of von Braun's iconic rotating space station design, as published in 1952. Never realized, this design was yet immortalized in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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