#1, 1970

Catalog #290

oil on canvas
Date: 1970
57 x 57 in.
#1_1970_8
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection, San Francisco, California (acquired directly from the above, 2017).

Exhibition History:

Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Karl Benjamin and Eugene Berman, November 15, 1970 – January 3, 1971.

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

San Francisco, California, Brian Gross Fine Art, Karl Benjamin: Selected Paintings 1967-1978, March 18 – May 8, 2021.

References:

Wilson, William. "Why Do Colonies - of All Places - Have So Little of It?" Unknown, sec. Art, p. 46.

Muchnic, Suzanne, et al. Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2011, plate 21, reproduced in color on page 65.