about Still Life with Bread and Basket

Still Life with Bread and Basket is an original Cubist oil painting by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) signed and dated lower right.

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.