Description
Still Life with Vase of Flowers and Guitar, 1935
Artist: Benjamin Benno
Oil on canvas
31 1/4 x 40 3/4 inches
Signed and dated, upper left
SOLD
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.