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Mars Satellite

Artist:Unknown British Illustrator
Date:1960s
Medium:Gouache on Board
Dimensions:18 1/4" x 23 1/4" Sight Size 13" x 17"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Likely Cover Art for Understanding Science
Price:$1,200.00  $840.00
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Futuristic, detailed, and very precise, we believe this science-fiction inspired imagination of cosmos exploration to have been created for cover use in the British magazine Understanding Science, a Sampson Low Publication. Geared to the high school audience, and part of the ongoing space race effort to get youths interested in science during the Cold War, the image seems to dramatize a late 1960s/early 1970s satellite mission to Mars, as the satellite appears to be Pioneer 10 or Pioneer 11. This delightful gouache on illustration board cover painting is unsigned, and likely the work of a British commercial artist. The painting is handsomely matted and framed under glass.

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Mars Satellite

Artist: Unknown British Illustrator
Price: $1,200.00  $840.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1960s, British, cold war, sci-fi, science, Understanding Science Magazine
Added to Gallery: June 28, 2017

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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