May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 376

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
Group of 5 lithographs from The Grapes of Wrath.

Ma Joad * Pa Joad * Sharon Joad * Tom Joad * Casy. Each an edition of only 25. Each signed in pencil, lower right. Commissioned by Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corporation, Los Angeles. Various sizes and conditions. Very good impressions.

Benton made a series of characterizations portraying the main characters of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath for Twentieth Century Fox's 1940 film of the novel directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Fath 35-39.