Bars – Black, Yellow, Purple, 1958

Catalog #745

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated upper right - KB '58
Date: 1958
48 x 18 in.
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Provenance:

[Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California];
Private Collection, New York, New York (acquired directly from the above, circa 1959);
[Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York];
Private Collection, Michigan (acquired directly from the above, 2003);
[Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Modern Art + Design, October 20, 2019, Lot 170];
Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, California (acquired directly from the above);
Collection of Alex Slato, Miami, Florida, and Paris, France.

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, California, Esther Robles Gallery, Karl Benjamin, 1969.

New York, New York, Gary Snyder Fine Art, Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersly, and John McLaughlin, June 1 – August 25, 2001.

References:

Weil, Rex. “Four Abstract Classicists” and “Modern American Art of the 1930’s and 1940’s.” ARTnews, (October 2001) p. 169.

Credit:
Image courtesy of Rago/Wright/LAMA.