Description
Knife, Fruit Bowl and Water Jug, 1936
Artist: Benjamin Benno
Gouache on paper
6 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Major modernist painter and printmaker rediscovered with the revival of first generation American abstract art. See Kandinsky & The American Avant-Garde 1912-1950. A British-American major modernist painter and printmaker rediscovered with the revival of first generation American abstract art. Studied under Robert Henri and George Bellows at the Ferrer School, NYC; an anarchist center run by Emma Goldman. Henry Miller wrote an article in The Booster entitled, “Benno, The Wild Man from Borneo.”
