Larry Rivers ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Larry Rivers: Photograph of Larry Rivers, 1956

1923 New York City - 2002 Southampton, New York. Known for: Modernist pop figure, word image genre painting.

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Figurative* artist Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx in 1923 to Ukrainian Jewish parents, and was named Yitzak Loiza Grossberg. Rivers belonged to the second generation of the New York School* of painters, although unlike most of his contemporaries he stayed away from abstraction instead preferring narrative paintings. He began his artistic career playing the jazz saxophone, and when one night his group was introduced as "Larry Rivers and the Mudcats," he decided to keep the name. After a brief period in the army during World War II, Rivers attended Julliard School of Music for one year before returning to the jazz saxophone. After he met the painter Jane Freilicher, he decided to devote himself to painting. Rivers attended Hans Hofmann's... Read full biography

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Somewhere

Type:Print

Year:1995

Size:18.00" x 24.00"

Medium:Screenprint/Silkscreen

Signed:Lower Left

Edition:23/100

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Twenty-two color screenprint on Rivers BFK White Unique collaboration of Rivers with composer Ned Rorem and writer John Updike for the Centennial Portfolio published by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998

Price: $2,950. Please contact Kenneth Wolfe

Pop Singer

Type:Sculpture

Year:1970-1979

Size:17.50" x 14.00"

Medium:Mixed Media

Signed:Front

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Larry Rivers was one of the earliest artists to qualify as making Pop Art in America. Google him for tons of information on this extremely important New York artist. He is on my top 5 list (along with Twombly, Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer).

Price: $2,880. Please contact Guy Lyman Fine Art