Lot 134 : Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Artist or Maker:
Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Title:
Scabbies are Welcome
Description:
Scabbies are Welcome
signed 'Ben Shahn' (lower right)
tempera on paper laid down on panel
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1937.
Provenance:
Downtown Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the donor.
Exhibited:
Chicago, Illinois, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Contemporary Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, 1946.
Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition: Ben Shahn, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, 1951.
Chicago, Illinois, The Renaissance Socitey at the University of Chicago, Ben Shahn, 1954.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Contemporary Arts Center, An American Viewpoint: Realism in Twentieth Century American Paintings, 1957.
Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Ben Shahn: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1969.
New York, Jewish Museum, Ben Shahn: A Retrospective 1898-1969, no. 25, 1976-77.
Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collection: The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, 1983.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, A Century of Caring, 1986.
Youngstown, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945, 1996.
Notes:
Property Belonging to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Sold to Benefit the Museum's Acquisition Fund*
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