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Benjamin G. Benno
The Life of a Comma, Modern Abstract Still-Life Drawing by Benjamin Benno 1961

1961

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An original charcoal on paper by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 25 x 9.5 inches. Nicely framed to 37 x 21.5 inches. By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-garde and exhibited with the most significant European artists including Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Hans Arp, and Fernand Léger. Pablo Picasso sponsored Benno's first one-man show in Paris in 1934.
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