May 23, 2002 - Sale 1937

Sale 1937 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BEN SHAHN
Three Bathers<>.

Watercolor, 1930. 381x572 mm; 15x22½ inches. Signed in ink, lower left. In good condition.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Shahn was living in Brooklyn (he shared a studio with Walker Evans) and spent his summers painting in Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where this scene is likely based.