The First Word of Verse Arises - chapter XXII from the Rilke Portfolio

 

Ben Shahn

  1898 - 1969 (biography)

1968  

lithograph, with signature printed in color 

16 3/16 x 13 3/8" image size, excluding stone signature 

signed in the stone, lower right 

from the edition of 750, unnumbered 

 

chapter XXII, "For the Sake of a Single Verse - From the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs", Rilke, Potter Publishers 1968; FAMSF 1996.74.434.24 

buff Velin d'Arches 

published 

artist and Potter Publishers 

21805 

$400.00