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A matte painting of the Lincoln Memorial hand-painted by matte painter Matthew Yuricich for Michael Anderson's Logan's Run. In the post-apocalyptic 23rd century, Logan 5 (Michael York) and Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter) stumbled upon nature-reclaimed ruins of the Lincoln Memorial and marveled at the statue's old face, having never seen someone of advanced age before.

To achieve the shot of the memorial in a state of vine-covered decay, Yuricich painted over an enlarged photograph applied to masonite with shellac, a technique he had been introduced to decades earlier using black-and-white prints of photographs as a matte artist at 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Yuricich received a special Academy Award® for his groundbreaking visual effects work, earning him a reputation amongst science-fiction fans and cinephiles alike as a master film artist.

The painting is rendered in mixed media on masonite, with a piece of tape labeled "104," and depicts the interior of the Lincoln Memorial, with the seated statue and columns covered in twisting green vines. However, this being a color print per the directives of special effects visual designer L.B. "Bill" Abbott, the color ink seeped through into Yuricich's paint and affected the color, leaving the painting with a pink hue.

The color photograph beneath this matte still exhibits an uncorrected red dye. The matte comes mounted in a black wooden frame and features mounting holes along the edges. Also included is a custom-framed composite image from the Yuricich family labeled for Yuricich and the film. The masonite board has undergone sympathetic repair to where it had previously split down the middle, and the painting exhibits some scuffing and chipping from age. Dimensions: 69" x 31" x 1.5" (175.25 cm x 78.75 cm x 4 cm)

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Yuricich was the captain of the Twentieth-Century Fox baseball team and was presented with a Yankees team-signed ball by Marilyn Monroe, who was married to Yankee star Joe DiMaggio at the time.


Estimate: $6,000 - 12,000