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WLADYSLAWTHEODOR BENDA.
“The Villain.” Mixed media on board. 630x600 mm; 25x23
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2
inches. 5-mm puncture near
lower left corner. Signed lower right. Matted and framed. Circa 1915.
[1,200/1,800]
W.T. Benda was an important Polish-American
artist of the Golden Age of American Illustration
who studied with Robert Henri. He illustrated
Fu Manchu and Sherlock Holmes mysteries,
but his most enduring pictures are those for the
first edition of Willa Cather’s My Antonia
(1918). He was famous for a series of artistic
masks he designed for the Greenwich Village
Follies. (Marcel Duchamp was among their
admirers.) The A to Z of American Theater
(2009) calls Benda “the supreme mask-maker
in NewYork.”
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BOB BERRAN.
Sassy girl. Acrylic and pencil on board.
335x245 mm; 13
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4
x9
3
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4
inches. Signed lower
left. Studio stamp on verso.Matted. Nd.
[300/400]
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