?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) WARNING! INFLATION / REGISTER-VOTE. 1946. 41x27 3/4 inches, 104x70 1/2 cm. L.I.P. & B.A., New York. Condition B+ / B: loss in upper corners; vertical and horizontal folds. Paper. This poster is based on a photograph taken 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.
