Benn: Les Amis de l'Oeuvre du Peintre Benn (Signed with an original drawing by Benn to the author Isaac Bashevis Singer)

Bencjon Rabinowicz; Andre Chamson; Etienne Souriau; Jean Bancal; Armand Lanoux

Paris : Klincksieck, Les Amis de l'oeuvre du peintre Benn, 1970

[Extra illustrated with an original color pencil drawing inscribed to Isaac Bashevis Singer, signed by the artist, BENN]. Folio, 32 cm. Publisher's printed wrappers. Shelfwear to spine edge. Mounted illustrations, including some in color.  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) was a Polish-American writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.  Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz; 1905-1989) was a Polish painter associated with School of Paris.  Like Singer, he was a Jewish artist who emigrated from Poland before the Nazi occupation.  He often collaborated with the Marc Chagall. An interesting association, both men had a similar history and background. Both men's grandfather's were rabbis, as was Singer's father.