Birds Over the City (Color Lithograph)

Ben Shahn

Atelier Mourlot, 1968

Original color lithograph on Arches wove paper. Red signature lower right. Limited edition of only 135 copies, this being number 17.  Framed and mounted, under glass.  Dimensions: Print: 74 x 55 cm (29 x 21 1/4"). In Frame: 81 cm, width x 99 cm, height.  A very good impression. Prescott 78. Ben Shahn (American artist, 1898-1969). "Doves, Byzantine architectural elements and the expressive features of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke are motifs repeatedly used by Shahn to reflect his feeling of love and loneliness." - Humboldt State University.