Above: Full view of gouache illustration

Above: The artists monogrammed signature lower right

A typically action packed interior illustration gouache painting by Mort Kunstler for the April 1957 edition of Sports Afield Magazine. A large menacing polar bear in pre-global warming, shrinking ice cap terrain with a Cessna water landing small aircraft as the backdrop, illustrating the story by Gene Caesar titled “Top of the World”.

Above: Published artwork included in sale

Nicely matted and framed and in pristine condition.

Above: Detail

Above: Verso notations

Issue of magazine included in sale, caption reads “Not now!” I screamed at him. Too Late. There was no sound of slug hitting flesh. Instead, it chopped through the fuselage and smashed into the motor…