Red, Yellow, Green, 1957

Catalog #705

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB 57
Date: 1957
42 x 50 in.
1957_red_yellow_green_1
Provenance:

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist, 1958);
[Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 2002).

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, 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.

Malibu, California, Seaver College Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Karl Benjamin: Paintings From the Fifties, March 23 – April 18, 1981.

New York, New York, Gary Snyder Fine Art, Geometric Abstraction 1937-1997, May 30 – August 15, 1997.

Santa Monica, California, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Karl Benjamin: Paintings 1955-1990, October 24 – November 30, 1991. Also exhibited at Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York, January 4 – February 15, 1992.

References:

“Hard-Edge Painting.” Architectural Digest (April 1997), reproduced in color on p. 190-191.

Wilson, William. “Santa Monica.” Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1978, sec. Art Walk, p. 7.