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BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)

Lot 88
16.04.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1561428
Lot 88 | BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)
Tennis Court
signed 'Ben Shahn' (lower right)
tempera and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard
sheet, 8 x 20 ¾ in. (20.3 x 52.7 cm.);
overall, 12 x 22 in. (30.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1948.




Provenance

The artist.
Seventeen Magazine, New York, commissioned from the above, 1948.
Downtown Gallery, New York.
Arthur Laurents, New York.
Estate of the above.
Roland Auctions, New York, 2 June 2012, lot 423, sold by the above.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 22 September-4 October 2023, lot 653, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

M.B. Paradis, "August Fifteenth," Seventeen, August 1948, pp. 114-15, illustrated.
C.P. Golden, A Medal for Ben, New York 1958, n.p.
D. Holden, "An Interview with Art Paul," American Artist, vol. XXXIX, no. 394, May 1975, p. 35.
M. Scotford, Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design, New York, 1999, p. 66, illustrated.
D.S. Raizman, A History of Modern Design, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2004, p. 254.



Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 28th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art of the Art Directors Club of New York, March 15-April 17, 1949, n.p., no. 191.
New York, Downtown Gallery, Ben Shahn: Exhibition of New Paintings and Drawings, October 25-November 12, 1949, n.p., no. 6.
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