Untitled 21/75
More Works By Anthony Benjamin Ink Etching 1977
22.25 × 14.75 in
56.52 × 37.47 cm
FRAMED
25.25 × 17.25 in
64.14 × 43.82 cm
About Untitled 21/75
This expressive ink etching by British artist Anthony Benjamin illustrates the contemporary artist’s fine draughting skills and was created as part of a series in 1977. Detailed organic shapes in earthy colours—black, brown, and white are layered in rows, one above the other.During the 1970’s Benjamin, a close school friend of Brian Eno (a musician and member of Roxy Music) created a series of prints that visualized the popular band’s electronic music. Benjamin experimented with form and colour throughout his artistic career. Edition 21 of 75.
“To rationalize my own work is easy, but I don’t want to rationalize it for in rationalizing it one seems to be led by what seems rational.”
Anthony Benjamin
Born in England in 1931, he first studied draughting at a technical College in 1947 and was accepted as an engineering draughtsman at the University of Westminster (1950–1954). After only one year of school, he travelled to Paris and studied for three months with a modern French artist, sculptor and filmmaker, Fernand Léger. He continued his studies in Paris after graduation having won a one-year scholarship for painting and printmaking. Benjamin taught and lectured at schools in England, the U.S., in Calgary and at York University in Toronto. He returned to London and moved to the country in Norfolk in the mid 1980’s. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Anthony Benjamin died in 2002. His work can be found in public and private collections.
