Jun 13, 2019 - Sale 2513

Sale 2513 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 50,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
BEN SHAHN
Men on a Bench.

Gouache on paper, circa 1940. 495x610 mm; 19 1/2x24 inches. Signed in gouache, lower right recto.

Acquired directly from the artist, New York, ex-collection private collection, New York and Lithuania; Gallery 51, Brussels; private collection, Brussels, thence by descent to the current owner.

This work is related to the artist's color screenprint Seward Park, 1936 (Prescott 1).