Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PRESIDENTS--1964 CAMPAIGN.) Shahn, Ben; artist. He Says No to Civilization and Survival. Lithograph, 28 x 22 inches; very minor toning, tiny chip on right edge; #326 of 500, signed and numbered by artist in pen. Np, [1964]

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Conservative Republican candidate Barry Goldwater is here depicted as a leering infant about to put his foot in his mouth. He is surrounded by a selection of his more extreme statements. Enough voters agreed with Shahn's assessment to put Lyndon Johnson back in the White House.