"Beside the Dying, " an Original Lithograph signed by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This print is from the series "For the Sake of a Single Verse" and depicts the head of a man in dark gray seemingly asleep or dead on a white background.
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
To childhood illnesses - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Many Cities - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
The sea itself - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Beside the dead - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Partings long seen coming - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
One must know the animals - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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To parents one had to hurt - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 32 in W 28.25 in D 1.5 in
Ben Shahn To Days of Childhood That are Still Unexplained Signed Lithograph 1968
By Ben Shahn
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968, First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pap...
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H 32 in W 28.25 in D 1.5 in
Ben Shahn To Days of Childhood That are Still Unexplained Signed Lithograph 1968
By Ben Shahn
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968, First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pap...
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H 32.75 in W 28 in
"Two Days of Childhood That are Still Unexplained, " Litho signed by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Days of Childhood That are Still Unexplained" from "For the Sake of a Single Verse" is an original lithograph signed in the lower right by the artist Ben Shahn.
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H 30 in W 25 in
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968 , First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pa...
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H 30 in W 25 in
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968 , First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pa...
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H 30 in W 25 in
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968 , First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pa...
Lithograph
Ben Shahn 'For the Sake of a Single Verse' 1968- Lithograph
By Ben Shahn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Supplemental Condition Information: Some smudging and marks in borde Additional Details: Original lithograph in colors from the portfolio "For the Sake of a Single Verse" which conta...
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H 25.2 in W 18.9 in D 2.37 in
For the Sake of a Single Verse, from the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By Ben Shahn
Located in Roma, IT
Title: For the Sake of a Single Verse, from the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke Edition of 950 copies including 24 original lithographs by Ben Shahn.
Paper, Lithograph
Beside the dying - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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H 25.2 in W 18.9 in D 2.37 in
For the Sake of a Single Verse - by R.M. Rilke with Ill. by B. Shahn - 1968
By Ben Shahn
Located in Roma, IT
Original Title: For the Sake of a Single Verse - from the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke Ben Shahn.
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H 22.5 in W 17.75 in
Many Men - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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Mornings by the sea - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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Memories of many nights of love - For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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In rooms withdrawn and quiet - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
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To roads in unknown regions - For the Sake of A Single Verse Rainer Maria Rilke
By Ben Shahn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ben Shahn From Portfolio "For the Sake of A Single Verse by Rainer Maria Rilke" Year: 1968 Lithograph on Richard de Bas hand-made paper Edition: 750 Size: 22.5 x 17.75 inches Signed ...
Lithograph
One Must Know the Animals
By Ben Shahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This piece is from the series "For The Sake of a Single Verse" and depicts a tiger-like animal in front of tall plants.
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H 30 in W 25 in
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968 , First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pa...
Lithograph
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H 30 in W 25 in
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
From the Rainier Maria Rilke portfolio, For the Sake of a Single Verse, New York, 1968 , First edition lithograph printed in colors at Atelier Mourlot, on Richard de Bas hand-made pa...
Lithograph
Symphony in White
By Pat Hobaugh
Located in Atlanta, GA
My paintings, like Whistler’s, have multiple layers of meaning. One is the use of a single color and its relative tones as the end intention of the work.
Latex, Acrylic, Board
Ben Shahn, for the Sake of a Single Verse, Signed Original Lithograph
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
AUTHENTICATION The Société de Vérification de la Nouvelle Gravure Internationale of New York and Paris certifies and warrants that this lithograph, signed in the stone bu Ben Shah...
Paper
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Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
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Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
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