Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
BEN SHAHN
Nicholas C.

Gouache on white wove paper, 1953. 749x597 mm; 29 1/2x23 1/2 inches. Signed in gouache, lower right recto. Ex-collection the artist and Kennnedy Galleries, New York, with the labels on the frame back.

An early variant of the figure in The Biography of a Painting and Philadelphia Museum of Art. See Prescott p. 152.