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44. Paradise Lost (The Flying Fiend); c. 1940s
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, inscribed in the artist’s hand on a tab attached to the sheet: “As when farr off at Seas a Fleet discri’d/ Hang in the Clouds, by Aequinoctial Winds/ Close sailing from Bengala, or the Iles/ Of Temate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring/ Their spicie Drugs: they on the trading Flood/ Through the wide Etheopian to the Cape/ Ply stemming nightly toward the Pol. So seem’d/ Farr off the flying Fiend . . . “ (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II)
$20,000 (set of four, catalog numbers 43, 44, 45 and 46)
Exhibited:
Emotion Expressed Through Precision: The Art of Charles Goeller, Franklin Riehlman Fine Art and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York, 2003
Literature:
Stavitsky, Gail, Emotion Expressed Through Precision: The Art of Charles Goeller, Franklin Riehlman Fine Art and Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York, 2003, unpaginated (illustrated) (see Catalog 43 for more details)
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