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BEN SHAHN | Freedom of Speech (Design #2)

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50,000 - 70,000 USD
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描述

  • Ben Shahn
  • Freedom of Speech (Design #2)
  • signed Ben Shahn (upper right) and titled Design No. 2 (upper center)
  • tempera on board
  • 5 1/2 by 15 1/2 inches
  • (13.9 by 39.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1939.

來源

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Mr. Marvin Pesses
Private collection, Japan
Acquired by the present owner from the above

展覽

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Ben Shahn, October-November 1968, no. 15, illustrated n.p.
Tokyo, Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, The Exhibition of Ben Shahn, May-July 1970, no. 16, p. 162, illustrated p. 12

Condition

There is frame abrasion at edges, artist's pinholes in all 4 corners and some minor staining in the white margin beneath the mat. There are a few scattered pindots of possible loss, most noticeable in the statue at right, and the work appears to be slightly dirty. There is a thin, 3 inch diagonal scratch extending from center bottom edge. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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拍品資料及來源

In 1938 Ben Shahn won a Treasury Department commission to produce 13 large fresco panels for the main lobby of the Bronx Central Annex Post Office in New York, which he completed in 1939. That same year he executed nine sketches, including Freedom of Speech (Design No. 2) and Immigration #2 (Design No. 7), for a series of murals on the Four Freedoms intended for the post office in St. Louis, Missouri. In his essay for the exhibition Ben Shahn, Frank Getlein notes that Shahn's "notably ambitious mural on the Four Freedoms" was never executed in full scale "because of political reasons" (Ben Shahn, New York, 1968, np).