May 23, 2002 - Sale 1937

Sale 1937 - Lot 304

Price Realized: $ 23,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
BEN SHAHN
We Demand the National Textile Act<>.

Gouache on heavy cream wove paper, 1935. 476x305 mm; 18 3/4x12 1/8 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Ex-collection the artist, Kennedy Galleries, New York, and Terry Dintenfass, New York, with the labels on the frame back.

Prescott lists this as Shahn's earliest poster, for which the current work is the maquette<>, and cites only one known impression of the poster (Prescott 137).