#9, 1965

Catalog #56

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB65
Date: 1965
25 1/2 x 51 in.
8011871
Provenance:

Estate of the Artist.

Exhibition History:

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

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Helen Lundeberg and the Four Abstract Classicists, April 28 – July 9, 2016.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Karl Benjamin: The Alphabet, May 20 – July 8, 2017.

Birmingham, Michigan, David Klein Gallery, Karl Benjamin: Alphabet Paintings, March 24 – April 28, 2018.

References:

Muchnic Suzanne, et al. Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2011, plate 15, reproduced in color on page 53.

Hunt, Luanne J. “Karl Benjamin: Remembering the artist, remembering the man.” Foothills (October 2012), reproduced in color on page 22.