BEN SHAHN (1898 1969) ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (1915 1985) Group of

Sale 2406 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 2,750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500

BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) & ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (1915-1985)
Group of 3 F.S.A. photographs, comprising 2 by Shahn and one by Rothstein. With Shahn's (1) three rugged men in front of a rundown general store and (2) an unemployed trapper lying down with a box of cigarettes, and Rothstein's (3) little girl staring longingly through a paneless window frame. Ferrotyped silver prints, each approximately 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), each with Associated Press and Rural Resettlement hand stamps, date stamps, the RA numbers, in pencil, and typed caption labels mounted to verso. 1935-36

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Shahn's "Zinc Arkansas, Deserted Mining Town" (1936) and "(Negro) trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana" (1936), and Rothstein's "Sharecropper's daughter, Arkansas" (1935).