One of Benny's Faces by Virginia B. Lewin

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1980. Exposition Press. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Scarce. Illustrated.

A study of Beniamino Bufano (1886-1970), the Man behind the Artist by his wife and partner Virginia B. Lewin.

Who was Benny Bufano? To the world, he was a San Francisco artist of the utmost renown, a sculptor and creator of thousands of works. But the private Benny, small of statue, insecure, tragically flawed in character was many men - an enigma cloaked in mystery, veiled in a fabric of lies he created to hide from the world his true private self and the women who loved him and bore his children.

Having wisely concluded that "Biography is fiction in a framework of fact, Virginia Lewin, Benny's wife and mother of his son, has drawn a complex and compassionate portrait of Bufano, the flamboyant and successful artist and of Benny, the street urchin, peering from behind his facade of sophistication and charm.

Dust Jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Stamp of Reading Copy on long edge. Else clean and unmarked.