In #25, painted in 1976, Karl Benjamin orchestrates a rhythmic interplay of vertical and horizontal bands in saturated, high-contrast hues that pulse with optical energy. The composition demonstrates Benjamin's consummate command of hard-edge painting, a movement in which he was a pioneering West Coast voice, arranging color fields with a precision that feels both rigorously calculated and intuitively alive. At 151.1 by 121.9 centimeters, the canvas commands physical presence, drawing the viewer into a sustained engagement with the relationships between adjacent colors and the subtle vibrations they generate at shared boundaries. Benjamin's work from the mid-1970s is widely regarded as representing some of his most confident and resolved output, and #25 exemplifies that maturity. Unlike the gestural abstraction that dominated much of American painting in the preceding decades, Benjamin's approach subordinated painterly mark-making to the expressive power of pure color relationships, a philosophy that aligned him with luminaries such as Frederick Hammersley, Lorser Feitelson, and John McLaughlin. The oil medium lends each band a rich, velvety depth that reproduction rarely captures adequately, making direct encounter with the work essential to a full appreciation of its chromatic sophistication. For the serious collector, #25 represents a significant opportunity to acquire a signed, period work from a critical chapter in California abstract painting. Benjamin's reputation has grown considerably in the decades following his death, and institutional recognition of the Hard Edge movement continues to deepen through major museum surveys and scholarship. This work, currently offered through Louis Stern Fine Arts, arrives with the provenance and quality of execution that distinguished Benjamin throughout his career.