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A Rock and a Hard Place
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1934
- Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower
- Size: 14 x 10.5 in. (35.56 x 26.67 cm)
- Frame Size: 18.5 x 15 inches
about A Rock and a Hard Place
A small-scale oil painting by Benjamin Benno executed in 1934.
A large boulder perches precariously on a tiled slab of earth, echoing a sense of stillness. 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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