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Allegoric Composition

Name: Allegoric Composition
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 79955

Benjamin Benno

$12,000

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

$12,000

Framed

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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 gilded silver frame.

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About The Artist: Benjamin Benno

Born in 1901, Benjamin Greenstein Benno was regarded as an artistic prodigy from a young age. After living in Russia for a short time after the death of his mother in 1905, Benno and his father relocated to New York where he was quickly enrolled in the Ferrer Modern School at the young age of eleven. After studying for several years at the progressive school, Benno moved to Paris in 1926 but returned to New York only a few years later in 1931....

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About The Medium: Gouache

A paint with opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a glue-like substance.

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