Lot 479
Benjamin Benno [born Benjamin Greenstein (American, 1901-1980), "A Bunkmate Climbing into an Upper Berth", c. 1916-1926, graphite on paper, signed "Benj. Greenstein" lower right, 8 1/2 in. x 11 in., unframed. E800-1200 Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York, label on mat. Note: This drawing is redolent with the decisively Realist style of the "Ashcan School," with whose preeminent members, Robert Henri and George Bellows, the highly precocious Benno (then still Benjamin Greenstein, who apparently changed his name only in the mid-1920s) began to study in 1912, immediately after his return to New York from a sojourn with his grandparents in Russia (to whom he had been sent after the death of his mother, in 1905).
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