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Eros and Psyche
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1936
- Ink on paper, signed and dated lower left
- Size: 12.75 x 16.5 in. (32.39 x 41.91 cm)
- Frame Size: 19.75 x 23.75 inches
about Eros and Psyche
Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) - Eros and Psyche.
Year: 1936, Medium: Ink on paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 12.75 x 16.5 in. (32.39 x 41.91 cm), Frame Size: 19.75 x 23.75 inches, Description: Entwined together, the two bodies of Eros and Psyche engage one another on a simple bedframe in this provocative ink drawing by Modernist Benjamin Benno. By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-garde and exhibited with the most significant European artists including Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Hans Arp, and Fernand Léger. Pablo Picasso sponsored Benno’s first one-man show in Paris in 1934.
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