21 / Art & Design 
30 September 2020
Karl Benjamin, #17 - Image 1 of 1
21 / Art & Design 
Karl Benjamin, #17 - Image 1 of 1
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Karl Benjamin 1925–2012

#17

1988
oil on canvas 30 h × 30 w in (76 × 76 cm)
estimate: $9,000–12,000
result: $10,000
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Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Karl Benjamin #17 1988'.
provenance: LA Louver, Venice, CA | Private Collection, California

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All of Benjamin's linear arrays become settings for chromatic invention...figure and ground dissolve into pleasurable confusion. If there is a rule at work in these paintings it is, as Benjamin has remarked, to shun no color...[he] takes these hues, burdened as they are with primal references, and makes them back into free colors, live presences...Even today, I can think of no other artist whose paintings exude the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin's.

Dave Hickey

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