Art + Design 
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Fletcher Benton 1931–2019

3 Strips

1972
stainless steel, plexiglass and electric motors 58½ h × 21½ w × 11 d in (149 × 55 × 28 cm)
estimate: $4,000–6,000
result: $5,250
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Etched signature, title, date and number to upper edge ‘Fletcher Benton 1972 #2 3 Strips’. This work is unique.
literature: Fletcher Benton: The Kinetic Years, Selz, Chattopadhyay and Ghirado, pg. 202 illustrates another work from the series

This work will ship from LAMA in Los Angeles, 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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