Die Dreigroschenoper (The Beggar's Opera)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M25425
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Beggar's Opera)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1958-1959
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/193064

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Poster; offset photolithograph printed in black and brown

Technique

Photolithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 64 x 45.7 cm (25 3/16 x 18 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: plate signed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores S. Taller
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: M25425
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Stephen Lee Taller and Frances K. Pohl, Remembering Ben Shahn: Selections from the Stephen Lee Taller Collection, exh. cat., Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California, 1998), p. 8

Verification Level

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