Description
The Apricot and the Peach, 1936
Artist: Benjamin Benno
Ink and crayon on paper
5 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches
Signed and dated, lower right
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.”
