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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Ben Shahn

Crowd Listening

Lot Closed

March 17, 05:10 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Ben Shahn

1898 - 1969

Crowd Listening


signed Ben Shahn (lower right)

tempera on paper

12 by 11 ½ in.

30.5 by 29.2 cm.

Executed in 1936. 

Dr. and Mrs. Sidney R. Merions, New York (acquired from the artist)

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 1971 by the present owner

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Ben Shahn, 1968, no. 11, illustrated

Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Ben Shahn: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1969, no. 26

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, The Exhibition of Ben Shahn, 1970, p. 38, no. 7, illustrated

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Ben Shahn, 1971, no. 5, illustrated