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Benjamin F. Berlin
Untitled (Surreal Abstraction)1939

Not on view
Oil painting, surrealist scene with an oversized pale face with wavy hair and a radiant halo above smaller goggle-eyed heads, a striped cylindrical figure holding a sunflower, and brick walls with gridded windows
Artist or Maker
Benjamin F. Berlin
Title
Untitled (Surreal Abstraction)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1939
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm) Frame: 26 3/8 × 28 3/4 × 2 in. (66.99 × 73.03 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Herman and Regina Cherry
Accession Number
AC1992.301.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Ehrlich, Susan, ed. Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957. Los Angeles: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 1995.