Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Six Witnesses who Bought Eels from Vanzetti
signed 'Ben Shahn' (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pen and ink on paper laid down on masonite
9½ x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm.) (sight)
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Literature
M.H. Bush, Ben Shahn: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, Syracuse, New York, 1968, p. 24, illustrated
Lot Essay
Executed 1931-32.
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