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Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

American, 1923-2002

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 Juilliard 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 school for nearly two years. In 1949, he had his first solo show at the Jane Street Gallery, an artist's co-op in the Village. Rivers received favorable reviews and was invited to join the Tibor de Nagy Gallery uptown.

Rivers continued to show annually at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery from 1952 to 1962. In 1963, he joined the Marlborough Gallery, where he stayed until his death. In 1955, The New York Museum of Modern Art acquired his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware, and in 1956 the Whitney Museum purchased Double Portrait of Berdie, two of his more famous paintings. He had periodic museum shows in Europe and the United States throughout his career.

Rivers had two sons, Joseph and Steven, by his first wife, Augusta. In 1961 he married Clarice Price and had two more children, Gwynne and Emma. In the 1970s he had another son with the painter Daria Deshuk.

The subjects of River's figurative paintings were family, history, politics, religion and sex. His work done in oils often included the use of stencils, cutouts, blank canvas and image reversals. He often painted family members including his mother in law, his sons and his ex-wife. Rivers favored historical subjects such as History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews (1984-85), History of the Russian Revolution (1965) and often painted parodies including his Washington Crossing the Delaware. He enjoyed controversial subjects and shocking the public. Lapman Loves It (1966) is a nine-foot electrified assemblage complete with strategically located light bulbs. French Vocabulary Lesson (1961-62) is a nude with body parts labeled in French.

Rivers was also a writer. In 1979 he published Drawings and Digressions with Carol Brightman. In 1992 he published What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography with Arnold Weinstein.

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(Biography provided by Lincoln Glenn)

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Artist: Larry Rivers
Homage to Picasso
By Larry Rivers
Located in Boca Raton, FL
paper measures 26.5 x 30 inches. Edition PP 4/4 Painter, sculptor, poet, and musician Larry Rivers was an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large pa...
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20th Century Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper

Larry Rivers 1981 Signed Hirshhorn Exhibition Poster
By Larry Rivers
Located in Larchmont, NY
Larry Rivers (American, 1923-2002) Larry Rivers Exhibition, Hirshhorn Exhibition Poster, 1981 Lithograph (?) Sight: 34 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. Framed: 36 x 24 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed and num...
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1980s Contemporary Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Pop Art 1997 Offset Lithograph Larry Rivers Music Poster Hamptons NY
By Larry Rivers
Located in Surfside, FL
Larry Rivers "The Music Festival of the Hamptons / July 18-27 1997" poster, Not hand signed. [Dimensions: 24" H x 18" W] Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction. Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947–48. He earned a BA in art education from New York University in 1951. His work was quickly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. A 1953 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was damaged in fire at the museum five years later. He was a pop artist of the New York School, reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art. He was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery in 1955 along with Paul Mommer, Leonard Baskin, Peter Grippe During the early 1960s Rivers lived in the Hotel Chelsea, notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol Factory and where he brought several of his French nouveau réalistes friends like Yves Klein who wrote there in April 1961 his Manifeste de l'hôtel Chelsea, Arman, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo & Jean Claude, Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet, several of whom, like Rivers, left some pieces of art in the lobby of the hotel for payment of their rooms. In 1965, Rivers had his first comprehensive retrospective in five important American museums. His final work for the exhibition was The History of the Russian Revolution, which was later on extended permanent display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. He spent 1967 in London collaborating with the American painter Howard Kanovitz. In 1968, Rivers traveled to Africa for a second time with Pierre Dominique Gaisseau to finish their documentary Africa and I, which was a part of the groundbreaking NBC series Experiments in Television. During this trip they narrowly escaped execution as suspected mercenaries. During the 1970s, Rivers worked closely with Diana Molinari and Michel Auder on many video tape projects, including the infamous Tits, and also worked in neon. Rivers's legs appeared in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever. From 1940–1945 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, changing his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 after being introduced as "Larry Rivers and the Mudcats" at a local pub. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in 1945–46, along with Miles Davis, with whom he remained friends until Davis's death in 1991. Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx to Samuel and Sonya Grossberg, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. In 1945, he married Augusta Berger, and they had one son, Steven. Rivers also adopted Berger's son from a previous relationship, Joseph, and reared both children after the couple divorced. In 1949 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Jane Street Gallery in New York. This same year, he met and became friends with John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch. In 1950 he met Frank O’Hara. This same year he took his first trip to Europe spending eight months in Paris, France, reading and writing poetry. Beginning in 1950 and continuing until Frank’s death in July of 1966, Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara cultivated a uniquely creative friendship that produced numerous collaborations, as well as inspired paintings and poems. In 1951 Rivers’ works were shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery where he continued to show annually (except 1955) for about 10 years. In 1954 he had his first exhibition of sculptures at the Stable Gallery, New York. In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art acquired Washington Crossing the Delaware. This same year he won 3rd prize in the Corcoran Gallery national painting competition for “Self-Figure.” Rivers’ also painted “Double Portrait of Berdie” in 1955, which was soon purchased by the Whitney Museum. In 1957 he and Frank O’Hara began work on “Stones,” a collaborative mix of images and poetry in a series of lithograph for Tatyana Grosman company ULAE. During this time he also appeared on the television game show “The $64,000.00 Question” where along with another contestant, they both won, each receiving $32,000.00. In 1958 he again spent time in Paris and played in various jazz bands. In 1959 he painted Cedar Bar Menu...
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Untitled
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Picasso) Screen print, 1974 Signed, numbered and dated in red pencil lower right (see photo) from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Publisher: Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin ...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen

At The Dwan Gallery: Historic exhibition poster (Hand Signed by Larry Rivers)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers At The Dwan Gallery: Rivers Small Recent Work (Hand Signed), 1965 Silkscreen on wove paper Hand signed and dated "Rivers, 1965" in graphite pencil lower right front Fram...
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1960s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen, Pencil

LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book), 1989 Hardback monograph with a dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed "Enjoy the Matisse" Signed, dated and inscribed by Larry Rivers in red marker on the title page 11 3/5 × 9 4/5 inches Lavishly illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket on the occasion of the artist's career retrospective. Text is by the distinguished art historian and Princeton professor Sam Hunter. Hand signed, dated and dedicated in red marker on the title page. Inscription reads: To Joanne and Ira Enjoy the Matisse Larry Rivers, April 2, 1992 About the book: Hunter, Sam. LARRY RIVERS. 358 pp. with 400 illustrations, including 155 plates in color. Folio, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 1989. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. Retrospective monograph on Larry Rivers. Features text by Sam Hunter. Includes 400 illustrations of which 155 are in color. Publisher's Blurb: Rivers' public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer. His best-known images of the 1960s--Dutch Masters cigars, French money, cigarette packs--became Pop icons. Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures, such as his obese, sagging mother-in-law depicted in the nude with brutal honesty ( Double Portrait of Berdie ). Yet there is more to Rivers than the hipster, as this lavishly illustrated monograph by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi...
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1980s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Downtown Lion (1st State)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Downtown Lion (1st State), 1967 Etching on wove paper, signed, inscribed and dated with blind stamps Signed, dated and inscribed in graphite; Printers Proof aside from ...
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1960s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Etching

Republique De Guinee, for Andy Warhol, Inscribed in ink to Andy Warhol
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Republique De Guinee, for Andy Warhol, Inscribed in ink to Andy Warhol, 1977 Color Pochoir, Acrylic Airbrush and Pencil on paper with deckled edges...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Acrylic, Pencil, Stencil

Homage to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (signed and inscribed)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Homage to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, signed and inscribed to Arthur Gold and Robert (Bobby) Fizdale, 1973 Lithograph and Screenprint on Paper Hand signed and inscribed on lo...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

What Did I Do? Limited edition signed print featuring The Unauthorized Biography
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Biography, 1992 Lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 3/325 and dated on lower right front Frame In...
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Larry Rivers Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery (Hand Signed)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Larry Rivers Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery (Hand Signed), 1974 Silkscreen in colors on wove paper Hand Signed, annotated HC and numbered in white marker from th...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen

Tanfastic, Framed Lithograph on Plexiglass by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
A challenging piece by American Pop artist Larry Rivers. This collage-style print centers on the duality of colorism, particularly in the US. White people are encouraged to use produ...
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1960s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Queen of Clubs, Playing Card by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002) Title: Queen of Clubs Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph and Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: ...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Red Coats, 1970 Silkscreen with Collage
By Larry Rivers
Located in Southampton, NY
The work of controversial post-Abstract Expressionist artist Larry Rivers is in the collection most Major Museums. In 2021 a work of his sold at Sotheby's for over 2 Million Dollars. "Red Coats" 1970 is a signed and numbered Silkscreen print with hand Collage. The red coats are a red velvet like material that is glued to and collaged onto the silkscreened image. The silver boots are also collaged onto the silkscreened image. This work is one of the larger works Larry Rivers created in 1970 for a series of silkscreens based on his Boston Massacre...
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1970s Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen

Stencil Camel
By Larry Rivers
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Larry Rivers Stencil Camel 1978 Color stencil and pochoir printed on acetate and color lithograph on two sheets 25 x 21 1/2 in. Artist's Proof (A.P.) of 25 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art. Condition: This work is in excellent condition. Frame: This work is framed in a wood frame. ABOUT THIS WORK: The logo of Camel cigarettes...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Spoleto Festival - Original Lithograph by Larry Rivers - 1988
By Larry Rivers
Located in Roma, IT
Spoleto Festival is an original lithograph on cardboard, realized by Larry Rivers in 1988. Signed on plate. Good conditions. Larry Rivers (1923 – 2...
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1980s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Diana Raised 1
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Diana Raised 1 Lithograph from four stones, 1970 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Annotated "PP" for Printers Proof lower right (see photo) Publisher: ULAE ULAE blindstamp lo...
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1970s American Modern Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Larry Rivers Lithograph "For Adults Only I" Corseted Nude Female
By Larry Rivers
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "For Adults Only I" is an exquisite offset lithograph print with colors of an alluring corseted and stockinged nude female in a confrontational pose filling the f...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Carnegie Hall, Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers Title: Carnegie Hall Year: 1990 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 4/60 Paper Size: 57 x 40 inches
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Fred and Ginger, Pop Art Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers (American, 1923–2002) Title: Fred and Ginger Date: 1999 Medium: Lithograph, unsigned proof Paper Size: 40 x 35 in. (101.6 x 88.9 cm)
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Big B Signs Up" 1976 signed Lithograph celebrating the Bicentennial 23/175
By Larry Rivers
Located in Southampton, NY
The work of controversial post-Abstract Expressionist artist Larry Rivers is in the collection most Major Museums. In 2021 a work of his sold at Sotheby's for over 2 Million Dollars. "Big B Signs Up...
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1970s Contemporary Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Big B Signs Up, Pop Art Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002) Title: Big B Signs Up Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 44/175 Size: 19.5 in....
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

BIG B SIGNS UP
By Larry Rivers
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Original lithograph. Edition of 175. Framed. Additional images available upon request. Certificate of authenticity included. Artwork i...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

Camel, Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
An image synonymous with Pop Art, Camel, by Larry Rivers is emblematic of the artist’s most iconic work.  Created as an original lithograph and measuring 14 ¾ x 13 in (37.5 x 33 cm),...
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20th Century Contemporary Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen

Madame Butterfly
By Larry Rivers
Located in Missouri, MO
Lithograph and silkscreen, 1978 23 x 31 inches (image and sheet) 28 x 36 framed Signed, dated and numbered ed. 300 lower left Printed by Styria Studios Figurative* artist Larry Rive...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Sky Music Over Carnegie Hall
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
This screenprint from the Carnegie Hall 100th Anniversary portfolio was created by the artist in 1990. From the signed edition of 60. Available for local...
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20th Century Contemporary Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lincoln Center
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Happy 20th Birthday Lincoln Center by Larry Rivers, American (1923–2002) Date: 1979 Offset Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 107/108 ...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Offset

Dutch Masters, Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Title: Dutch Masters Year: 1991 Medium: Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper Edition: 500, plus proofs Size: 25 x 31.5...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Larry Rivers, "Dutch Masters" (orig. 1953)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist, this is a limited-edition mixed media print, not of course the original (which would sell for over $1 million). There was no 1stDibs category choice for a print made using a mixed media approach. Among the photos I have included, you will see one I took on eBay of a dealer selling a print from the same prized edition, exactly like this one, for $2,500. This (Dutch Masters...
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Map with Fraser - Original Screen Print and Collage by Larry Rivers - 1966
By Larry Rivers
Located in Roma, IT
Map with Fraser 1966 in an original screenprint and collage realized by the American artist Larry Rivers in 1966. Very good conditions. This print, recalling a Pop Art atmosphere, portrays the profile of a man with a map of London on the background. Original creation by the polyhedric artist Larry Rivers (Bronx, 1923 - New York, 2002), an American artist, Jazz musician, filmmaker and actor. Often considered as a precursor to Pop Art. Andy Warhol himself revealed to have been influenced by Rivers art, saying: “Larry’s painting style was unique – it wasn’t Abstract Expressionism and it wasn’t Pop, it fell into the period in between. But his personality was very Pop.” In the last years of his life, Rivers dedicated more attention to his Jewish origins and the drama of the Shoah, creating works portraying Primo...
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1960s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Screen

Dutch Masters
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Title: Dutch Masters Year: Unknown Medium: Lithograph and silkscreen on wove paper Edition: 500, plus proofs Size: 25 x 3...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Larry Rivers, "Dutch Masters" (orig. 1953)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist, this is a limited-edition mixed media print, not of course the original (which would sell for over $1 million). There was no 1stDibs category choice for a print made using a mixed media approach. Among the photos I have included, you will see one I took on eBay of a dealer selling a print from the same prized edition, exactly like this one, for $2,500. This (Dutch Masters...
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media

Dutch Masters (Signed)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Please note that this is a mixed media print, not (of course) the original (which would sell for over $1 million). (There was no 1stDibs category choice for a print made using a mixed media approach.) At any rate - this (Dutch Masters...
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1990s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media

"Drawn from the Collection" (Collage)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
A perfect example of the great Larry Rivers' super-complex lithograph collages, painstakingly printed and assembled in layers. (Gallery label for $10,500 still attached, as shown in ...
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1980s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Larry Rivers, "Stencilpack Camel"
By Larry Rivers
Located in New Orleans, LA
The camel from the cigarette pack is the best-known example of Larry Rivers' imagery, other than the Dutch Master. Larry Rivers was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, artist t...
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1980s Pop Art Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper, Graphite, Lithograph, Stencil

Acetate Camel
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Acetate Camel, 1978 color pochoir with airbrush and hand additions on acetate and paper 25 1/8 x 21 1/2 inches edition of 120
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1970s Larry Rivers Figurative Prints

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Paper, Stencil

Larry Rivers figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Larry Rivers figurative prints available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Larry Rivers in lithograph, screen print, mixed media and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Pop Art style. Not every interior allows for large Larry Rivers figurative prints, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Red Grooms, James Rosenquist, and Ed Ruscha. Larry Rivers figurative prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $239 and tops out at $8,400, while the average work can sell for $2,750.

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