Sep 18, 2008 - Sale 2153

Sale 2153 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BEN SHAHN
For the Sake of a Single Verse by Rainer M. Rilke.

200 deluxe portfolio with complete text, 22 (of 23) lithographs (some printed in colors) and lithograph headpiece, 1968. 570x450 mm; 22 1/2x17 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 200 numbered copies on Richard de Bas hand-made paper, of a total edition of 950. Signed in red ink and numbered 29 in pencil, on the justification page. Each lithograph signed in red ink, lower right margin. Printed by Mourlot, New York. Published by Touchstone, New York.

Original paper covers and linen-covered, gilt-embossed portfolio case. Prescott 113-118 and 120-136.