Larry Bell Art
American, b. 1939
The legendary Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s produced many spectacular visual artists, such as Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston and James Turrell. Painter and sculptor Larry Bell is arguably among the most influential of the era’s marquee names. A quintessential contemporary abstract artist, Bell explored light with glass sculptures that are difficult to categorize, while his abstract prints are a meditation on color. Whether working in two or three dimensions, Bell's artistic intuition always leads the way.
Bell was born in 1939 in Chicago and grew up in California. From 1957 to 1959, he attended the Los Angeles Chouinard Art Institute where he created monochromatic abstract oil paintings that drew on Abstract Expressionism. Soon, he began incorporating mirrors and glass in his designs, which eventually evolved into provocative sculptural works.
During the mid-1960s, Bell developed his signature technique of modifying how light moves through and is reflected in his sculptures. Working with glass cubes he built, Bell used an industrial process that sees vaporized metals becoming thin plastic films to be added to the works’ interior panels. He essentially turned his transparent boxes into tapestries of diffuse color. Bell showed his cubes at a solo exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York City in 1965. The show was a huge success, selling out on its first day.
Bell continued experimenting with new methods and techniques, shifting his focus to larger and more monumental works in the late 1960s. In the 1970s, he developed adjustable glass sculptures with as many as fifty-six panels. He also dabbled in bronze sculpture and furniture design.
Throughout his career, Bell has exhibited widely, with shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Norton Simon Museum in California, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Denver Art Museum, Carré d'Art-Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes in France and Tate Britain, among many others.
In 2019, gallerist Peter Blake held a show celebrating West Coast minimalism, including the work of Bell as a respected and influential veteran in the space. Later, in 2022, Hauser & Wirth gallery in Los Angeles held a joint exhibition featuring the work of Bell and artist John Chamberlain. The two artists were lifelong friends who met in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene. In a sense, the show brought Bell back full circle.
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Artist: Larry Bell
Untitled (Fraction of Fractions)
By Larry Bell
Located in New York, NY
Larry Bell
Untitled (Fraction of Fractions), 2000
Pink, green and black painted elements with applied canvas and paper strips on French watercolor paper
Pencil signed and dated lowe...
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Early 2000s Abstract Larry Bell Art
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Hand Signed and Inscribed Poster to Collector Charles Rand Penney
By Larry Bell
Located in New York, NY
Larry Bell
Hand Signed and Inscribed Poster, 1981
Silkscreen Poster
Hand Signed, inscribed and dated by the artist on the front
16 × 14 inches
Unframed
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Screen
Patriots Throne
By Larry Bell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Patriots Throne" is a painting by Larry Bell. The painting is signed verso, "L Bell '89".
Throughout his career Larry Bell has made investigations into the properties of light on surface. By experimenting with the nature of surface and its relationship to space, Bell has devised a methodology characterised by spontaneity, intuition and improvisation.
Bell began his career in 1959 and his earliest works consisted of abstract, monochrome paintings on paper and shaped canvases whose outlines corresponded to the silhouette of a box drawn in isometric projection. Panes of glass and then mirrors were substituted for parts of the painted design and this exploration of spatial ambiguity eventually evolved into sculptural constructions made of wood and glass. These works represent the genesis of Bell’s later...
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Nude 1, Large Surreal Nude Silkscreen by Larry Bell
By Larry Bell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Bell, American (1939 - )
Title: Nude 1
Year: 1974
Medium: Silkscreen with Flocking, signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Edition: 17/60
Image Size: 71 x 28.5 inches
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Cube # 32 (Amber / Green)
By Larry Bell
Located in London, GB
Larry Bell
Cube # 32 (Amber / Green)
2005
Coloured glass coated with inconel
50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cms (20 x 20 x 20 ins)
LB9551
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Larry Bell from 'In Barcelona' series Signed, Limited Edition Print
By Larry Bell
Located in San Rafael, CA
Larry Bell (b. 1939)
Untitled, from 'In Barcelona' series, 1989
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Edition 29/75
Signed and numbered in pencil along the lower edge
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Fractions Series (LB 4970)
By Larry Bell
Located in London, GB
Larry Bell
Fractions Series (LB 4970)
1999
Collage on paper
25.4 x 25.4 cms (10 x 10 ins)
LB11
Category
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Fraction Series (4522) 12/21/98
By Larry Bell
Located in London, GB
Larry Bell
Fraction Series (LB 4522)
1998
Mixed media and collage on paper
25.4 x 25.4 cms (10 x 10 ins)
LB 4368
Category
1990s Abstract Larry Bell Art
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Mixed Media
Fraction
By Larry Bell
Located in London, GB
FRACTIONS
The Fractions are a large body of small works on paper that Larry Bell made using collaged pieces of discarded Mirage works. Each Fraction is composed of one or more 3×3” s...
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Early 2000s Abstract Larry Bell Art
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- Who is Larry Bell?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Larry Bell is a sculpture and installation artist born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 6, 1939. He is especially known for producing large illusionist works out of clear and colored glass. You'll find a collection of Larry Bell art on 1stDibs.