Property from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires Sold to Fund Future Acquisitions
Karl Benjamin
#14
Auction Closed
February 26, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires Sold to Fund Future Acquisitions
Karl Benjamin
1925 - 2012
#14
signed with the artist's initials and dated 65 (upper right)
oil on canvas
42 by 42 ¼ in.
106.7 by 107.3 cm.
Executed in 1965.
Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Karl Benjamin as Catalog #136.
Tony Dunlap, California (acquired directly from the artist)
Orange County Museum of Art Benefit Auction, Santa Ana, California, 15 September 2007, lot 2110 (donated by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2007)
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, 6 May 2012, lot 138
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; Rome, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; and Miami, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950, September 2014 - January 2015, pp. 136-137, illustrated in color
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965 -2015, October - March 2015, pp. 35, 56, 71, 79 and 187
Claudine Humblet, The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, vol. 1, Milan 2003, p. 496, illustrated in color
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