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BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) Mourners (Study for Death of a Miner).

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BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) Mourners (Study for Death of a Miner).

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Mourners (Study for Death of a Miner).
Pen and ink on cream wove paper, circa 1949. 222x152 mm; 8¾x6 inches. Signed in blue ink, lower right and inscribed "Centralia" in ink, lower left.

WITH -- Untitled (Starving Boy), pen and ink on buff wove paper. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Circa 1949.

This funeral image is a study for the group depicted in the upper right corner of Ben Shahn's painting Death of a Miner (1949), collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicting the diaster that happened in Centralia, IL in 1947.

Provenance: private collection, New York; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection New York.

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BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) Mourners (Study for Death of a Miner).

Name: BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) Mourners (Study for Death of a Miner).
Brand: Ben Shahn
SKU: 169344562
Price: 2800 USD
Availability: InStock

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