May 23, 2002 - Sale 1937

Sale 1937 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BEN SHAHN
Ravishing, Ha, What Crouches<>.

Brush and ink on cream wove paper, 1955. 158x127 mm; 6¼x5 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Ex-collection the artist, Kennedy Galleries, New York, and Santa Fe East Gallery, Sante Fe, with the labels on the frame back. In good condition.

An illustration study for Homage to Mistress Bradstreet<> by John Berryman, New York, Farrar-Straus, 1955-56. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet<> was the first collection to establish Berryman as a major poet of the first rank.