“Make Believe Ballroom”
By Larry Rivers
Located in Warren, NJ
Larry Rivers “Make Believe Ballroom” Signed Acrylic Oil Photolithograph Cast Resin Wood 1989. In good condition measures 48x48
20th Century Larry Rivers Paintings
Oil
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)
“Make Believe Ballroom”
By Larry Rivers
Located in Warren, NJ
Larry Rivers “Make Believe Ballroom” Signed Acrylic Oil Photolithograph Cast Resin Wood 1989. In good condition measures 48x48
Oil
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...
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Mid Century Chianti with Orange Still Life
By Claude Buck
Located in Soquel, CA
Still life "Wine with Orange" by Claude (Charles Claude) Buck (1890-1974). Signed lower left. Artist's notes and color scheme on verso. Displayed in rustic giltwood frame. Image, 14"...
Masonite, Oil
$1,500
H 14.75 in W 19 in D 0.04 in
"Fanti Fishing Boat" Modern Abstract Figurative Woodcut Print 47 of 86
By John Thomas Biggers
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract figurative woodblock print of a beach landscape with a boat. The print is stamped by the artist and titled and editioned in pencil. This print is editioned 47 of 86 and the print is not currently framed. Artist Biography: Born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924, John Biggers studied at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) under Viktor Lowenfeld and muralist Charles White. In 1943, Biggers' mural, Dying Soldier, was included in the exhibition curated by Lowenfeld, Young Negro Art, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After serving in the United States Navy, Biggers transferred to Pennsylvania State University where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as his doctorate in art education. In 1949, Biggers accepted a faculty position at Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University) in Houston, where he founded and chaired the art department until his retirement. In the early 50s, he won prizes for his work at annual exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1957, he traveled to Africa on a UNESCO fellowship to study Western African cultural traditions, becoming one of the first black artists to study the culture first-hand rather than through library research. His work was profoundly influenced by his experiences in Africa. He was known for his murals, but also for his drawings, paintings, and lithographs, and was honored by a major traveling retrospective exhibition from 1995 to 1997. He created archetypal imagery that spoke positively to the rich and varied ethnic heritage of African Americans, long before the Civil Rights era drew...
Woodcut
$1,500Sale Price|25% Off
H 30 in W 30 in D 1 in
Clockin (Rare Signed Screen Print)
By John Crash Matos
Located in Aventura, FL
10 color screen print on coventry rag 290 gsm paper with deckled edges. Hand signed and dated lower front by John 'Crash' Matos. Hand numbered 6/50 lower left front. Artwork size ...
Paper, Screen
Ensign No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
A native of Upstate New York, Matt Ballou was educated at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2001) and Indiana University ( MFA 2005) before coming to The University of ...
Plastic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
$948Sale Price|26% Off
H 14.5 in W 18.5 in D 2 in
Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa, by South African Artist, Marthinus la Grange (1920-1999) Art measures 14 x 10 inches Frame measur...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Yellow Plug on Cedar Shake
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown. John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. ARTIST STATEMENT Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...
Oil
$330
H 24 in W 18 in
Vintage American Impressionist New England Harbor Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3564 Oil on canvas board Set in a vintage wood frame Image size 19x13"
Oil
DEEP NIGHT
By Daria Kusto
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto. Ink , markers on Paper. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Fleure polychromes, original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
Catherine Ann Lurcat ( 1932-1994) was a French artist and painter born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the inner southwestern suburbs of Paris, and is the daughter of the architect Andre'...
Lithograph
$4,450
H 27.25 in W 24.25 in D 1.13 in
1920 Historical Church of Soquel, California Landscape
By Mary DeNeale Morgan
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful historically significant oil painting of the Congregational Church of Soquel by Mary DeNeale Morgan (American, 1868-1948). Signed "M. DeNeale Morgan" lower right corner. Exhibit label on verso. Canvas on Masonite. Displayed in giltwood frame. Image, 24"H x 20"W. Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her first visit to Carmel in 1903. In 1910 she returned to buy the studio and home of the late Sydney Yard...
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of a Lady
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Francesco GUARDI (1712-1793) Portrait of a Lady Oil on copper 5 1/8 x 4 3/8 in 13 x 11 cm Unsigned Provenance Private collection, France We are pleased to present an exceptional...
Copper
Northern California Duck Lake, Realist Landscape
By Luke Stamos
Located in Soquel, CA
Crisp realist landscape of two ducks on the lakeside surrounded by rolling hills near Mt Tamalpais by Luke Stamos (American, b. 1938). Unsigned; one of 3 we purchased (one of which is signed) in Los Gatos California from the buyer who acquired them from the artist. Unframed. Measures: 18"H x 24"L. Luke Stamos was born in Chicago, and began studying art at the Chicago Art Institute at age 5. His family moved to San Francisco in 1944 and became aware of California’s splendid outdoor life, and began to pursue a life-long hobby of hunting and fishing. While attending high school in Daly City...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 48 in W 38.75 in D 4 in
"Blue Collar Holiday" Acrylic, oil stick, and litho mounted on cast resin fiber
By Larry Rivers
Located in Southampton, NY
"Blue Collar Holiday" by Larry Rivers is an Acrylic, oil stick, photo litho on paper mounted on cast resin fiber, with wood backing. It is then painted over with acrylic and oil sti...
Plywood, Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Foam Board, Lithograph