Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 274

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BEN SHAHN
For the Sake of a Single Verse by Ranier M. Rilke.

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.

Edition of 950. Signed in pen and red ink and numbered "68" in pencil on the justification page. Each lithograph signed in pen and red ink, lower right. Printed by Mourlot, New York. Published by Touchstone, New York.

Original gray linen portfolio. Very good impressions. Prescott 113-136.