Lot 23
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BEN SHAHN | Detail No. 2: Labyrinth

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Ben Shahn
  • Detail No. 2:  Labyrinth
  • signed Ben Shahn (lower left)
  • tempera on joined paper laid down on Masonite
  • 60 1/2 by 22 3/4 inches
  • (153 by 57.8 cm)
  • Executed in 1952.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Private collection (sold: Christie's, New York, May 23, 2001, lot 116)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale 

Exhibited

New York, Owen Gallery, Modernism: an American View, 1994
New York, The Jewish Museum; Allentown Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, 1998-1999, no. 29, n.p., illustrated

Condition

The Masonite has been mounted to a stretcher. There is frame abrasion with some associated losses and creases at edges. There are scattered light surface scratches in the background and a few pindots of possible loss.
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