SHAHN, Ben

Original Brush Drawing, "Black and White for Sol"

[Roosevelt, NJ: ca 1950s]. Original brush drawing in black on white wove paper, ca. 40" x 26". Inscribed and signed below image: "Black & White for Sol," signed in full "Ben Shahn." Well-preserved with a few faint spots of foxing visible in image. Unframed.

"Sol" is the noted documentary photographer Sol Libsohn, who was Shahn's close friend and neighbor in Roosevelt, New Jersey. The composition, possibly a portrait of Libsohn, is in Shahn's later, semi-figural abstract style, depicting a human man with Phoenix wings hovering over and looking down upon a mysterious spiral symbol, perhaps a maze or mandala. An exceptional, large and clearly personal work – Shahn drawings of this size are rare on the market and this is an uncommonly nice example.

Price: $7,500.00

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