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SHAHN, BEN. Hallelujah.

SHAHN'S LAST WORK SHAHN, BEN. Hallelujah. 24 color lithographs by Ben Shahn illustrating the 150th Psalm. Folio; plates with usual mild offsetting, but bright, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; cloth folding box with gilt-lettered calf cover label. Near fine. New York: Kennedy Graphics, (1970)

  • Notes: number 57 of 240 copies. Shahn''s drawings for Hallelujah were completed just months before his death and represent his last completed work. They were originally intended to be a large-scale mural for a Jewish community center in Rockville, Maryland.
    with--A broadside bearing an invitation to an exhibition opening for Judith Shahn. Signed and dated 31 March 1974 by her in blue ink; 420x260mm (image), matted and framed. Highland Park, NJ, 1974.
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