Early Original Pencil Portrait by Ben Shahn of his First Mentor, Hessenberg. 1916 [with] Two Page ALS from Shahn to Hessenberg's son Stanley

by SHAHN, Ben

$4,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

Unbound. Pencil sketch on 5" x 8" notebook paper. Very faint mat burn at margin and a small paper remnant at the top of the sheet, else near fine. A portrait of Shahn's mentor and first employer, Mr. Hessenberg, owner of Hessenberg's Lithograph Company on Beekman Street in New York..... More

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