#1, 1980

Catalog #152

oil on canvas
Date: 1980
72 x 48 in.
200797
Provenance:

Estate of the Artist.

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Karl Benjamin: Selected Works 1979-1986, January 28 – March 2, 1986.

Claremont, California, Claremont Museum of Art, A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin Paintings 1953-1995, April 15 – July 4, 2007.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, September 29 – December 22, 2007.

New York, New York, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Structured Color, February 8 – April 22, 2011.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980, September 24 – December 24, 2011.

References:

Schipper, Merle, et al. Karl Benjamin: Selected Works 1979-1986. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1986, reproduced on page 17.

Pagel, David, et al. A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin Paintings 1953-1995. Claremont: Claremont Museum of Art, 2007, reproduced in color on page 38.

Hickey, Dave, et al. Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin. Los Angeles: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2007, plate 28, reproduced in color on page 65.

Pincus, Robert L. “Patterns of Excellence.” San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 August 2008, p. 24.

Muchnic, Suzanne, et al. Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2011.