The Stage, 1958

Catalog #81

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated upper left - KB '58
Date: 1958
40 x 50 in.
7001757
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 2007).

Exhibition History:

Malibu, California, Seaver College Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Karl Benjamin: Paintings From the Fifties, March 23 – April 18, 1981.

Riverside, California, Riverside Art Museum, Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, August 26 – October 14, 2006.

References:

O’Brien, Pat. “Riverside Art Museum: Centerpoint for other Southland Exhibitions.” The Press-Enterprise, 24 August 2006, sec. Your Life, p. D01.

Frank, Peter. Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World. Riverside: Riverside Art Museum, 2006, reproduced in color on page 53.

Schipper, Merle. Karl Benjamin: Paintings from the Fifties. Pepperdine University: 1981, reproduced in color on page 11.