Lot 117
White (Tim, artist, 1952-2020) Original dust-jacket artwork design for Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, 1981.
Hammer Price: £850
Description
White (Tim, artist, 1952-2020) Original dust-jacket artwork design for 'Time Enough for Love' by Robert Heinlein, airbrush and acrylic on board, signed by the artist in margin, image c.385 x 235mm (15 x 9 in), original protective glassine cover secured by tape on margin, 1981.
⁂ Used as the cover art for the 1978 New English Library reprint of Robert Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, published in 1982. Heinlein's work is still considered a cornerstone of mid-century science-fiction: John Leonard writing in The New York Times praised Time Enough for Love as "a great entertainment", declaring that "it doesn't matter [that] all his characters sound and behave exactly the same; it's because the man is a master of beguilement. He pulls so hard at the dugs of sentiment that disbelief is not merely suspended; it is abolished".
Classical White tropes are apparent - detailed surrealist vegetation is drawn with acute precision, suspended in dream-like backdrop.
Description
White (Tim, artist, 1952-2020) Original dust-jacket artwork design for 'Time Enough for Love' by Robert Heinlein, airbrush and acrylic on board, signed by the artist in margin, image c.385 x 235mm (15 x 9 in), original protective glassine cover secured by tape on margin, 1981.
⁂ Used as the cover art for the 1978 New English Library reprint of Robert Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, published in 1982. Heinlein's work is still considered a cornerstone of mid-century science-fiction: John Leonard writing in The New York Times praised Time Enough for Love as "a great entertainment", declaring that "it doesn't matter [that] all his characters sound and behave exactly the same; it's because the man is a master of beguilement. He pulls so hard at the dugs of sentiment that disbelief is not merely suspended; it is abolished".
Classical White tropes are apparent - detailed surrealist vegetation is drawn with acute precision, suspended in dream-like backdrop.