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Charles Louis GoellerParadise Lost CollectionCirca 1940s
Circa 1940s
$20,000
£15,209.12
€17,542.98
CA$28,016.34
A$31,355.82
CHF 16,372.63
MX$382,542.84
NOK 207,829.08
SEK 197,217
DKK 131,002.68
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This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
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: “But his doom/ Reserv’d him to more wrath; for now the thought/Both of lost happiness and lasting pain/ Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes/ That witness’d huge affliction and dismay/ Mixt with obdurate pride and steadfast hate” (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1)
2. Paradise Lost (The Flying Fiend)
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)
3. Paradise Lost (Plumb Down He Drops)
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 in a cloudy chair ascending rides/ Audacious, but that seat soon failing, meets/ A vast vacuitie; all unawares/ Fluttering his pennons vain plumb down he drops/ Then thousand fadom deep, . . .” (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II)
4. Paradise Lost (These Bad Angels)
Crayon on paper, signed lower right, 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 the potent Rod/ Of Amram’s Son in Egypt’s evil day/ Wav’d round the coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud/ Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind; That ore the Realm of impious Pharoah hung/ Like Night and darken’d all of the Land of Nile;/ So numberless were these bad Angels seen . . .” (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I)
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)
- Creator:Charles Louis Goeller (1901 - 1955, American)
- Creation Year:Circa 1940s
- Dimensions:Height: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Set of fourPrice: $20,000
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- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1859213692392
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