Sep 19, 2002 - Sale 1942

Sale 1942 - Lot 748

Price Realized: $ 3,910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
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; 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 1000. Signed in red pencil and numbered 662 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. Upper and lower edges of portfolio spine split, otherwise in good condiiton. Prescott 113-136.