Lot 89036: DEAN ELLIS (American b.1920) Lost Continent, 1972

DEAN ELLIS (American b.1920) Lost Continent, 1972 Acrylic on board 17 x 22.5 in. Signed lower center This painting was used as the cover of C. J. Cutliffe Hyne's novel, Lost Continent, Ballantine Books, 1972. "The Lost Continent was C. J. Cutliffe Hyne's most famous fantastic novel. This is the best of several novels published in the wake of Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World (1882), which popularized the mythology of the sunken continent for Victorian readers. With tongue slightly in cheek, Hyne treated the myth as it really deserved to be treated -- as a grandiose exercise in imaginative sensationalism." - Brian Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950. A copy of the book is included in this lot. From the Frank Collection.

This piece has been framed to an overall size of 24.5 x 30.5in., and the art is in Excellent condition.