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Saturn as seen from Titan

Painting depicting blue green ground and sky with brown tall mountains and yellow illumination outlines of Saturn. Signature lower left. Text information on verso: "Saturn from Titan" "6 1/2" "Chesley Bonestell" "Saturn from Titan apparent at Saturn 5 1/2 distant to Saturn 771,000 miles…Titan 3,000 miles. Chesley Bonestell Hollywood…" Bonestell Gallery tracking number 37. Original illustration from Ley, Willy. The Conquest of Space. New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Plate XXXVI, p. 132. Image reproduced courtesy of Bonestell LLC.

Chesley Bonnestell (1888-1986) studied architecture and paved a successful career, first as an architectural illustrator, then as a matte painter in Hollywood. but he had nurtured a passion for astronomy sine his childhood.\n \n In 1944, he painted a series of images for LIFE magazine in which he imagined how Saturn would look as seen from its satellites. This particular painting, "Saturn as seen from Titan", became the most iconic work in space art. It was also used to illustrate Willy Ley's book, The Conquest of Space (1949). It became one of Bonnestell's favorites too. In fact, he made different versions of it over the years.\n \n We know now that the surface of Titan would look much different and that its dense atmosphere would make it impossible to actually see Saturn from the surface, as rendered by Bonnestell. As a well-informed artist, Bonnestell simply made the best guess using the scientific information available at the time. But more importantly, he excited the imagination of the public about space, inspiring the American space program. Bonnestell dedicated the rest of his long career to space art, a field in which he is revered as a trailblazer.

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