Grey Planes, 1957

Catalog #143

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB '57
Date: 1957
32 x 40 in.
2009.005 Benjamin, Karl Grey Planes 1957r1 copy
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection, California (acquired directly from the above);
[D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, New York];
Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chicago, Illinois (acquired directly from the above, 2009).

Exhibition History:

Los Angles, California, Occidental College, Karl Benjamin, April 7 - May 4, 1958.

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Paintings by Karl Benjamin: Abstract Classicism, December 7, 1958 - January 4, 1959.

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, California Modernism, 1940-1970, September 2 - November 20, 1994.

Santa Monica, California, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Paintings from the 50s and 90s, 1998. Exhibited in conjunction with Sunshine & Noir, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 1998 - January 9, 1999.

References:

Pagel, David. "Art Reviews." Los Angeles Times, 13 November 1999.

Credit:
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilyn Thoma Art Foundation, photo by Jamie Stukenberg.