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Portrait of a Lady Watercolor | Benjamin Benno

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Portrait of a Lady

Name: Portrait Of A Lady | Benjamin Benno
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 74570

Benjamin Benno

$2,500

American (1901–1980)

Date: 1940
Watercolor and ink on paper, signed and dated
Size: 14.75 x 10.13 in. (37.47 x 25.72 cm)
Frame Size: 22 x 18 inches

$2,500

Framed

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about Portrait of a Lady

Benjamin Benno’s swirling abstract portrayal of a woman is entirely comprised of two overlapping circles filled with curving brushstrokes and two distinct black dots at the center of each shape.

Drastically different from typical portraits of women, this watercolor features considerable contrast between the illuminated subject and the shadowy background that further enliven the work. An original gouache on paper by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). 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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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: Ink

Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.

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