Mask, 1963

  • A. Manaranche, French
  • Mourlot Press, French
  • Ben Shahn, American, 1898-1969

Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper

  • Image: 26 × 19 3/8 inches (66 × 49.2 cm) Sheet: 29 7/8 × 21 inches (75.9 × 53.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

F1983.131

Signed, on stone, lower right: Ben Shahn Signed, in pencil or black crayon, lower left: Ben Shahn

Watermark: ARCHES

Inscribed, on stone, lower left: A. MANARANCHE LITH.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

McNulty, Kneeland. The Collected Prints of Ben Shahn. Philadelphia, 1967, pp. 76-77, no. 38 (ill.). Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York, 1973, p. 53, no. 51 (ill.).

Ben Shahn, Mask, 1963, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.131.