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Untitled 16
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1938
- Oil on Paper, signed and dated lower right
- Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
- Frame Size: 28.5 x 24 inches
about Untitled 16
The figure in this oil on paper painting is a common one for this artist.
A blue Cubist interpretation of a person, seated in the center of the composition and slouched toward the viewer. Their form is so abstracted as to almost resemble rough-hewn marble. This painting by American Modern artist Benjamin Benno is nicely framed. 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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