May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SHAHN, BEN. Hallelujah. 24 color lithographs by Shahn illustrating the 150th Psalm. 413x445 mm; 16 1/4x17 1/2 inches (sheets), full margins. Folio, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered calf cover label. New York: Kennedy Graphics, [1970]

Additional Details

number 133 of 240 copies. Shahn's drawings for Hallelujah were completed just months before his death and represent his last completed work. They were originally intended to be a large-scale mural for a Jewish community center in Rockville, Maryland.