SHAHN, BEN The Dreyfus Affair. The Ben Shahn Prints.
Cincinnati: Crossroads, 1984. First edition, one of 450 sets, this copy 150. Portfolio containing the book in original grayish-tan paper boards, with the plates in descriptive paper sleeves. 15 1/4 x 12 inches (38.5 x 31 cm); 26, [2] pp.; eight pochoirs. The case with spine defects and other wear, the contents fine.

A work with a long gestation, this originated in the 1930s as an exhibit in conjunction with Walker Evans. These prints were created for the Trianon Press, and were intended for publication in 1970, but the project was long delayed by the deaths of Shahn and of Arnold Fawcus, the proprietor of the Press. The text volume contains the text of Zola's letter J'Accuse!, and essays by Shahn's wife Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the historian Egal Feldman and by Charles Westheimer. The prints are of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Picquart, Paleologue and Demange, Labori and Picquart, Marie-Charles-Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy (the real culprit), Major Armand-Auguste-Ferdinand-Marie Mercier du Paty de Clam, Fernand Labori, and the handwriting "experts."

C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman

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