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Fletcher Benton 1931–2019

Folded Square Alphabet Y

2013
enameled steel 9 h × 8 w × 8 d in (23 × 20 × 20 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $3,250
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Incised signature and date to underside ‘Fletcher Benton 2013’. Signed and numbered in marker to underside ‘FB 2108'. Base swivels.
provenance: Yares Art, New York | Private Collection, California

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All my years as a sign painter, layout, proportion is very important, because you’ve got a given space which you have to go in and break up the space and you always work from the center out....I was always very sensitive to the negative space between the letters....because that got into composition, that got into making a statement that was fixed. And that statement had to have impact, it had to have certain rhythms and certain color combinations.

Fletcher Benton

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