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BEN SHAHN Woman in Auvergne<>.
Oil on paper, circa 1929. 445x305 mm; 17½x12 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Ex-collection the artist and Kennedy Galleries, New York, with the labels on the frame back.
An oil sketch from Shahn's second overseas voyage in 1927-29, during which he visited southern Europe and North Africa. The current work shows the influence of the Fauves on the young Shahn, particularly that of Matisse.
