Sep 18, 2008 - Sale 2153

Sale 2153 - Lot 330

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BEN SHAHN
For the Sake of a Single Verse by Rainer M. Rilke.

Portfolio with 14 (of 24) lithographs (some printed in colors) and lithograph frontispiece and headpiece, 1968. 570x450 mm; 22 1/2x17 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 750 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches, of a total edition of 950. Signed in red pencil and numbered 698 in black pencil on the justification page. Printed by Mourlot, New York. Published by Touchstone, New York.

Original paper covers and linen-covered, embossed portfolio case. Prescott 113-117, 120-123, 125,128, 129, 132 and 134-136.