?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) WARNING! / INFLATION MEANS DEPRESSION. 1946. 41 1/4x27 3/4 inches, 104 1/2x70 1/2 cm. L.I.P. & B.A., New York. Condition B: repaired tear at bottom edge into image; tears, losses, creases and abrasions in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; pin holes in corners. Paper. This poster is based on a photograph Shahn took during the 1930s while traveling through Arkansas, "of a farmer, whose seeming integrity and strength greatly impressed Shahn" (Prescott p. 132). It is a troubling image of a working man faced with the Great Depression, yet with a bright, yellow solution: "Register - Vote." Prescott 156.
