#39, 1964
Catalog #49
oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and date lower right - KB64
Date: 1964
42 x 42 in.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist.
Exhibition History:
San Francisco, California, Brian Gross Fine Art, Karl Benjamin: The Alphabet Series: 1964-1965, September 9 – October 16, 2004.
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, 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 9, reproduced in color on page 41.