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Music Hall Pathos

Name: Music Hall Pathos | Benjamin Benno
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 77138

Benjamin Benno

$5,600

American (1901–1980)

Date: 1938
Gouache and Colored ink on paper, signed and dated lower left
Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm)
Frame Size: 23.25 x 19.25 inches

$5,600

Framed

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about Music Hall Pathos

Gouache and ink drawing depicting an abstracted figure, containing one single eye.

By British born American artist 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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About The Artist: Benjamin Benno

Born in 1901, Benjamin Greenstein Benno was regarded as an artistic prodigy from a young age. After living in Russia for a short time after the death of his mother in 1905, Benno and his father relocated to New York where he was quickly enrolled in the Ferrer Modern School at the young age of eleven. After studying for several years at the progressive school, Benno moved to Paris in 1926 but returned to New York only a few years later in 1931....

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About The Medium: Gouache

A paint with opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a glue-like substance.

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