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EMMANUEL MICHEL BENNER, DIT MANY BENNER (1873-1965)
The item was sold for 659 €
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EMMANUEL MICHEL BENNER, KNOWN AS MANY BENNER (1873-1965)
Bust portrait of Captain Antoine Duval (1854-1940)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dedicated 'Hommage à mon capitaine' upper right
(Shading and small lacunae in the paint layer)
Oil on canvas, signed and dedicated 'Hommage à mon capitaine' upper right
46 x 38 cm - 18 1/8 x 15 in.
Provenance
- Private collection, France
- Acquired from the latter
Note
Emmanuel Michel Benner was born on July 17, 1873 in Capri. He is the son of the painter Jean Benner and the nephew of Emmanuel Benner, his father's twin brother. A pupil of Jean-Jacques Henner, Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury, he entered the Beaux Arts de Paris at the age of sixteen and was awarded the Second Grand Prix de Rome. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1891, winning a medal of honor in 1897. He received medals at the 1902 and 1905 Salons (2nd class) and was classified Hors-Concours. In 1903, he was awarded a travel grant and visited Italy, Greece and Spain. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1925), he was appointed curator for life of the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner, avenue de Villiers, Paris. His work focuses on nudes, portraits, landscapes and flowers. He painted in Capri, the birthplace of his mother's family, in Albi, where he found refuge during the Second World War, and in Alsace, the birthplace of his father's family. In 1909, he lived at 11 boulevard de Clichy in Paris.
Bust portrait of Captain Antoine Duval (1854-1940)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dedicated 'Hommage à mon capitaine' upper right
(Shading and small lacunae in the paint layer)
Oil on canvas, signed and dedicated 'Hommage à mon capitaine' upper right
46 x 38 cm - 18 1/8 x 15 in.
Provenance
- Private collection, France
- Acquired from the latter
Note
Emmanuel Michel Benner was born on July 17, 1873 in Capri. He is the son of the painter Jean Benner and the nephew of Emmanuel Benner, his father's twin brother. A pupil of Jean-Jacques Henner, Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury, he entered the Beaux Arts de Paris at the age of sixteen and was awarded the Second Grand Prix de Rome. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1891, winning a medal of honor in 1897. He received medals at the 1902 and 1905 Salons (2nd class) and was classified Hors-Concours. In 1903, he was awarded a travel grant and visited Italy, Greece and Spain. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1925), he was appointed curator for life of the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner, avenue de Villiers, Paris. His work focuses on nudes, portraits, landscapes and flowers. He painted in Capri, the birthplace of his mother's family, in Albi, where he found refuge during the Second World War, and in Alsace, the birthplace of his father's family. In 1909, he lived at 11 boulevard de Clichy in Paris.