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121 BEN SHAHN.
“Fortune.” Ink and wash on paper.
305x216 mm; 12x8
1
/
2
inches, sheet. Signed
in ink, lower right.Tipped to matte; sepa-
rate cardboard flat (from back of frame)
contains two gallery labels (one from
Gump’s, San Francisco) dated 1957 and
two ink stamps from April 25 and June 19,
1961. One small abstract ink doodle on
verso. Based on Shahn’s “Conductor”
character image from the cover of Ounce
Dice Trice by Alastair Reid, with illustra-
tions by Shahn, Boston, 1958.
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