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Ben Benn, Boy With Doves, Painting

Name: Ben Benn, Boy With Doves, Painting
Price: 5850 USD
Availability: InStock

$5,850

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Long Island City, NY

Condition Notes: Good In very good condition apart from some staining in the canvas on the reverse. Good In very good condition apart from some staining in the canvas on the reverse. less

Description: Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Boy with Doves
Year: 1946
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated … more Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Boy with Doves
Year: 1946
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.44 cm)

Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose independent style defied stylistic classification. Despite excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Benn “seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of it.”(1) Benn’s prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1974. less

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