Mar 01, 2018 - Sale 2467

Sale 2467 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) WARNING! / INFLATION MEANS DEPRESSION. 1946.
41 1/4x27 1/2 inches, 104 3/4x70 cm. L.I.P. & B.A., New York.
Condition A-: replaced losses at edges; unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds.
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.