Original Brush Drawing, Black and White for Sol

by Ben Shahn

$7,500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Signed

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,

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