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Fletcher Benton 1931–2019

Balanced-Unbalanced Folded Circle #2

1985
steel, granite 9½ h × 11 w × 9¼ d in (24 × 28 × 23 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,032
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Incised signature, title and date to edge ‘Fletcher Benton F. C. #2 1985’. Base swivels.
provenance: Private Collection
literature: Fletcher Benton, Lucie-Smith, pg. 157

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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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