Dimensions: 50 x 65 cm
signed p.d.: 'Benn'
dated on the reverse: '1982', paper exhibition sticker Salon des Indépendants, sticker of the manufacturer of painting materials and auction sticker
Origin
private collection, France
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Benn. Paysages et visages de Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris July 22-October 12, 1986
94 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, March 8-27, 1983
Literature
Benn. Paysages et visages de Paris, exhibition catalog, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, Paris 1986
94 Salon des Indépendants, exhibition catalog, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris 1983 (?).
Biography
From 1926 to 1930 he was a theater decorator. In 1927 he had his first exhibition in Bialystok, from 1928 he exhibited in Warsaw. In 1929 he received a 3-year scholarship to study in Paris, where from 1930 he attended the studio of Fernand Léger. He remained in Paris permanently, changing his citizenship to French. He contributed to the broad current of the international Ecole de Paris of the interwar period. He remained faithful to figuration with a tendency toward geometric stylization. Imprisoned with his wife in a transit camp during World War II, he avoided deportation thanks to the help of Jean Paulhen and was hidden by him until the end of the war.