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Portrait of a Woman
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1953
- Pastel and Charcoal on paper, signed lower right
- Size: 18.5 x 10.5 in. (46.99 x 26.67 cm)
- Frame Size: 27 x 19 inches
about Portrait of a Woman
A smokey portrait of a nude woman in pastel and charcoal on paper.
This piece is an example of the more representational side of Benjamin Benno’s practice, showing in more realistic detail than usual the subject of the work. It is signed in the lower right and framed in a large ornamental wood frame. 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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