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Allegoric Composition
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
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American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1933
- Gouache On Paper
- Image Size: 24.5 x 19 inches
- Size: 29.5 x 22.5 in. (74.93 x 57.15 cm)
- Frame Size: 39 x 33 inches
about Allegoric Composition
Benjamin Bennon most prominently worked in the cubist tradition, stretching and fracturing the figures of his subjects in order to take new approaches to their meaning and interpretation.
Nearly lost in the fray of bisecting cuts and looping lines is a nude torso, plump and curvy and leaning towards the viewer. The effect of the cubist composition around it is almost like that of a frame. This piece is signed, titled, and dated on the verso and is housed in a white gold leaf 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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