 PREV | Absentee Bid Form | LIST of LOTS | Illustration House | INDEX to ARTISTS | Terms of Sale |  NEXT | |||||
| x |  | x | |||||||||
| x | Lot 40 | Paul Stahr | 1883 - 1953 | x | |||||||
| x | Man shocked at the sight of New York being destroyed by flood. | x | |||||||||
| x | Pulp magazine cover: ÒNew WorldsÓ, author: Erle Stanley Gardner, Argosy, December 17, 1932; Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 23", signed | x | |||||||||
| x | Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000 | x | |||||||||
| x | Provenance - The owner purchased this painting in a Manhasset, New York auction in 1967 for $4. | x | |||||||||
| x | Condition - Overall good: stretcher bar pressure lines, and substandard stretchers; small hole in canvas lower right. | x | |||||||||
| x | Within the science fiction genre, this is one of the earliest apocalyptic images of New York, the destruction of which was a sure-fire horror device for generations afterward. Note the similarities (and differences) to the recent movie, ÒThe Day After Tomorrow,Ó also featuring a flooded New York due to climate change. In this story, ÒNew Worlds,Ó the change is brought about by a reversal of the magnetic poles of the Earth. The author had figured on this occuring by physically rotating the Earth upside down, hence the sloshing of the oceans into the cities. [Not to worry, that's not how it happens.] The story abruptly shifts to a power struggle in the jungles of South America! The Empire State Building was completed only a year before this was painted. The author also wrote the Perry Mason series of stories and much other pulp literature. | x | |||||||||
| x |  | x | |||||||||
| x | An unfaded copy of the printed cover | x | |||||||||
| x |  | x | |||||||||
| x | No writing on verso, but an original Munsey's label ul | x | |||||||||
PREV | Absentee Bid Form | LIST of LOTS |  | INDEX to ARTISTS | Terms of Sale | NEXT | |||||
| x | x | 110 West 25 Street New York, NY, 10001 212 966-9444 | x | x | |||||||