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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SHAHN, BEN.) de Quincey, Thomas. Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow. 10 lithographs by Shahn printed in sepia on Papier Ancien, each signed by shahn in pencil and in plate. 333x254 mm; 13 1/4x10 inches, images, tipped to 18 1/4x14 1/4-inch window mattes, loose as issued. Accompanying text booklet is 16 pages, 8vo, printed wrappers. Folio, original blue cloth-covered portfolio stamped in gold, covers worn, ties missing; window mattes toned but lithographs bright. New York: Philip van Doren Stern, 1931
number seven of only ten copies containing the suite of 10 signed lithographs. signed by shahn and publisher, philip van doren stern, on the colophon, from a total edition of 212. A scarce example of the artist's earlier work as a printmaker. "Shahn recalled that only about 10 copies were sold and that he destroyed the remainder of the edition in anger and frustration. There are records of portfolios at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Princeton University Library"--Prescott 87-96.
