Description
Verge Avec Cerf Volant (Rod with a Kite), 1936
Artist: Benjamin Benno
Watercolor and gouache on paper
13 x 16 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.”
See Kandinsky & The American Avant-Garde 1912-1950. This print exhibited in Paris Show with Picasso, Kandinsky Leger, Lipchitz, et. al., 1935.
