Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BEN SHAHN
Two Figures Guided Through a Landscape by a Skeleton.

Tempera, gouache and pencil on white wove paper, circa 1931. 325x225mm; 12 3/4x8 1/8 inches. Signed in ink, lower right.

Provenance: Collection of the artist, with the label; Swann Auction Galleries, New York, sale 2029, January 13, 2005, lot 317; private collection, New Jersey.

A possible study for the Levana portfolio published in 1931 (see Prescott 95).