Five Figures, 1956

Catalog #938

oil on canvas
Date: 1956
46 x 46 in.
1956_five_figures
Provenance:

Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum) (acquired directly from the artist, c. 1956);
[Sotheby Park Bernet Los Angeles, Fine 19th and 20th Century American and European Paintings Auction, June 23-24, 1980, Lot 336];
Untraced; please contact research@karlbenjmain.com with any information regarding this painting.

Exhibition History:

Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum), Eighth San Gabriel Valley Artists Exhibition, October 7 - November 18, 1956.

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Paintings by Karl Benjamin: Abstract Classicism, December 7, 1958 - January 4, 1959.

References:

"San Gabriel Valley Annual Surveys Recent Art Trends," Los Angeles Times, 1956.

Exhibition checklist for the Eighth San Gabriel Valley Artists’ Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, 1956.