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Benjamin Benno

Benjamin Benno

$7,500

American (1901–1980)

  • Date: 1939
  • Pastel on paper mounted to board, signed and dated lower right
  • Size: 14 x 16.75 in. (35.56 x 42.55 cm)
  • Frame Size: 21.75 x 25.25 inches

$7,500

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about Fission

This ethereal piece by American Modern artist Benjamin Benno straddles the blurry line between Cubism and Orphism.

Orphism was developed by artists like Sonia Delaunay and emerged in the early 1910s as a way to create compositions of simultaneous states of being between abstraction and figuration, moving in the spaces where color, form, and motion interacted. This pastel work on paper is signed and dated by the artist and beautifully framed in a silver leaf 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: Pastel

An art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.

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Benjamin Benno

1939

Framed

Fission

Benjamin Benno

1939

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