Floating Structures (FS) #5, 1962

Catalog #51

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower left - KB62
Date: 1962
32 x 40 in.
FS 5
Provenance:

[Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California];
[Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York];
[Bonhams, Made in California, November 1, 2016, Lot 82];
Private Collection, Medford, Oregon (acquired directly from the above);
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Collection of Michael and Willy Miller, Los Osos, California (acquired directly from the above, 2007).

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association at Gallery 825, The First 80 Years, August 27 – September 24, 2005.

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

Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1990, October 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012. 

References:

“Annual Reports, New Officer Slate Top Agenda for Hospital Auxiliary.” The Daily Report, ca. 1962.

Miles, Christopher. “Ever the Unconventional.” Los Angeles Times, 17 September 2005, p. 43-44, mistitled #9.

Hickey, Dave, et al. Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2007, plate 10, reproduced in color on page 35.

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1990. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011, catalogue number 10, reproduced in color on pages 12-13, 35. 

Peabody, Rebecca, et al. Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945-1980. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011, reproduced in color on page 44.

Credit:
Image courtesy of Bonhams.