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Standing Figure
Benjamin Benno
Benjamin Benno
Price on Request
American (1901–1980)
- Date: 1932
- Gouache On Paper, signed lower right
- Size: 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm)
- Frame Size: 15.5 x 12 inches
about Standing Figure
A shy and dirty man stands alone in a muted landscape, his hand timidly resting on his collarbone.
His clothes are disheveled, a dark pair of overalls slouching across his too-narrow frame. Benno has made it impossible to tell whether the man is wearing a shirt or not. This harrowing painting in gouache on paper is paired with a wide mat and gilded gold 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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