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ROCKWELL, NORMAN. "THE FINAL IMPOSSIBILITY: MAN'S TRACKS ON THE MOON," 1969
Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- "The Final Impossibility: Man's Tracks on the Moon," 1969
Oil on panel, 8 by 12 ¾ inches (20.3 by 32.4 cm), signed "My best wishes to / F.C. Durant III sincerely Norman Rockwell" (lower left).
Provenance
Ex Collection of Frederick C. Durant, III
Literature
ILLUSTRATED: Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, vol. Ii, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1986, no. S431d, pp. 716-717
Catalogue Note
The present work is a study for The Final Impossibility: Man’s Tracks on the Moon (1969, Collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.), which Norman Rockwell painted as an illustration for the December 30, 1969 edition of Look magazine.