May 05, 2005 - Sale 2042

Sale 2042 - Lot 710

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
BEN SHAHN
For the Sake of a Single Verse by Rainer M. Rilke.

Portfolio with complete text, 23 lithographs (some printed in colors) and lithograph headpiece, 1968. 570x450 mm; 221/2x173/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 750 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches, of a total edition of 1000. Signed in red pencil and numbered 900 in pencil on the justification page. Printed by Mourlot, New York. Published by Touchstone, New York.

Original paper covers and linen-covered, gilt-embossed portfolio case. Some wear at the corners of the portfolio. Prescott 113-136.