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Fetiche
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
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American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1937
- Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left
- Size: 10.75 x 13.75 in. (27.31 x 34.93 cm)
- Frame Size: 12.5 x 15.5 inches
about Fetiche
Set against a deep green background of layered paint and wavy lines, Benjamin Benno’s textured composition features an array of unidentifiable figures of varying sizes and shapes.
This dimensional abstract work exemplifies the artist’s avant-garde style of Modernism that he explored while working in Paris before World War II. 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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