Interlocking Forms (IF) Yellow, Orange, Black, 1959
Catalog #646
oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB '59
Date: 1959
42 3/4 x 48 3/4 in.
Provenance:
[Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California];
The Marie Eccles Caine Foundation (acquired directly from the above, 1992);
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah (gift of the above, 1994).
Exhibition History:
Malibu, California, Seaver College Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Karl Benjamin: Paintings From the Fifties, March 23 – April 18, 1981.
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Four Abstract Classicists, November 16, 1982 – January 14, 1983.
References:
Peabody, Rebecca, et al. Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011, reproduced in color on page 43.
Schipper, Merle. Karl Benjamin: Paintings from the Fifties. Pepperdine University: 1981, reproduced in color on page 13.
Literature for Tobey C. Moss Gallery, "Four Abstract Classicists", 1982.