Untitled (Growing Forms), 1955

Catalog #286

oil on canvas
Signature: signed & dated lower left - Benjamin '55
Date: 1955
48 x 18 in
lsfa-1
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Collection of Jarrow L. Rogovin (acquired directly from the above, 2018).

Exhibition History:

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, California Modernism, 1940-1970, September 2 - November 20, 1994.

Santa Monica, California, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Karl Benjamin: Paintings from the 50s and 90s, 1998. Exhibited in conjunction with Sunshine & Noir, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, October 7, 1998 - January 9, 1999.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, September 24 - December 24, 2011.

References:

Pagel, David. "Art Reviews," Los Angeles Times, 13 November 1999.

Humblet, Claudine. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970. Volume 1, Milan: Skira, 2007.

Muchnic, Suzanne, et al. Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2011.