Description
Still Life with Mandolin and Bread
Artist: Benjamin Benno
Silkscreen with pochoir; Edition: 16/50
8 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Signed and dated lower right
A copy of an original Benjamin Benno letter is on the verso and relates to the creation of pochoirs.
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.”
