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The Metamorphosis of a Persecuted Star
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1938
- Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower right
- Size: 80 x 67 in. (203.2 x 170.18 cm)
- Frame Size: 84 x 71 inches
about The Metamorphosis of a Persecuted Star
This avant-garde portrayal of a woman highlights the prismatic attributes of Benjamin Benno’s work influenced by Cubism, transforming the subject into a crystalline, jagged figure illuminated by sunlight that filters through her translucent body.
This large painting is signed and dated lower left. 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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