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RÖSCHEL, KURT, [AFTER FRED FREEMAN]
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
- Untitled, but after Fred Freeman's illustration published in Collier's Magazine in 1952. Published in: Dolezal, Unternehmen Mars. Vienna: Budesverlag, 1955
- acrylic on board, matted, glazed and framed
Acrylic on artist's board 12 by 17 inches (to sight), matted, glazed and framed to 22 by 27 inches.
Literature
See Williamson, Spacecraft Technology: The Early Years. London: Institutions of Engineering & Technology, 2008.
Catalogue Note
Original illustration executed for Erich Dolezal's 1955 German science-fiction work Unternehmen Mars [Company Mars], depicting astronauts preparing a space rescue boat outside of a Lunar Spacecraft nacelle. Röschel was an Austrian graphic artist and painter who was best known for illustrating Dolezal's popular science fiction works.