Interlocking Forms (IF) Violet, Burnt Umber, 1958

Catalog #19

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB '58
Date: 1958
50 x 30 in.
7001709
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood California];
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California (acquired directly from the above).

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum (now LACMA), Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersly, John McLaughlin, September – October 1959.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Paintings from 1950-1965, January 10 – April 10, 2004.

References:

Nieto, Margarita. "Karl Benjamin." ArtScene (January 2004), p. 22.

Humbelt, Claudine. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2003, reproduced in color on page 482.

Nelson, Harold B., et al. Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2004, reproduced in color on page 30.