20th Century Art 
30 October 2024
20th Century Art 
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Fletcher Benton 1931–2019

Folded Circle Two Squares

1982
Corten steel 96 h × 91 w × 86 d in (244 × 231 × 218 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $20,160
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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
provenance: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco | Acquired from the previous in 1982 by the present owner

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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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