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Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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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Period: 1970s
Artist: Larry Rivers
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 Prints and Multiples

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Screen

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 Prints and Multiples

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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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Screen

Happy 20th Birthday Lincoln Center
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers Happy 20th Birthday Lincoln Center, 1979 Lithograph on wove paper Hand signed, numbered 80 from the limited edition of 108 and dated on the front by Larry Rivers 26 × 35 inches Unframed This hand signed and numbered limited edition lithograph was commissioned by the prestigious Vera List print program in NYC which invited artists to create works that would help fundraise for Lincoln Center, which many New Yorkers consider the cultural center of the city. This is Larry Rivers' clever homage to...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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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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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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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 Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Lithograph

The Last Civil War Veteran
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers The Last Civil War Veteran, 1970 Silkscreen and mixed media collage on paper 29 × 19 3/4 inches Frame included Edition of 100 Hand signed and numbered 55/100 in graphite lower front 1970 Mixed media collage multiple based upon famous Larry Rivers 1961 painting "The Last Civil War Veteran'. (In 1979-80, Rivers reprised this theme with another edition of 125, but this is the original 1970 print from the limited edition of only 100) In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art acquired The Last Civil War Veteran and by early 1963 put it on view. 1963 marked the hundred-year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Screen

Living at the Movies
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed, dated and numbered 64/175 in pencil by Rivers. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York.
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Color, Lithograph

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 Prints and Multiples

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Stencil, Lithograph

1970s Larry Rivers exhibition poster
By Larry Rivers
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Larry Rivers 1970s Exhibition Poster Published by: Robert Miller Gallery New York in 1977 Medium: Offset lithograph Dimensions: 32 × 30 inches Very good condition About Larry River...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

"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 Prints and Multiples

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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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1979 Larry Rivers '20th Anniversary Of Lincoln Center'
By Larry Rivers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 26 x 35 inches ( 66.04 x 88.9 cm ) Image Size: 26 x 35 inches ( 66.04 x 88.9 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: This image was created by Larry ...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Girlie
By Larry Rivers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Rivers (1923-2003) was a pioneering American artist and founding father of Pop Art. His combination of abstraction with commercial imagery was a precursor to the Pop Art moveme...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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Foil

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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Last Civil War Veteran
By Larry Rivers
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Rivers, Larry Title: The Last Civil War Veteran Date: 1978 Medium: Lithograph Framed Dimensions: 52" x 44" Signature: Pencil signed
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1970s Post-War Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

For Adults Only, Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002) Title: For Adults Only Year: 1971 Medium: Offset Lithograph with Collage on Two Sheets of Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil Editi...
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1970s Pop Art Larry Rivers Prints and Multiples

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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 Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

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 Prints and Multiples

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Larry Rivers America Needs McGovern, He Can Put Us Together, 1972 Color half-tone offset photolithograph on slick white wove paper 31 × 23 inches Edition 8/100 Pencil signed and numbered 8/100 In 1972, Larry Rivers was one of the fine artists commissioned by the Democratic National Committee to create a limited edition print as a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. The present work, featuring a smiling portrait of George McGovern underneath a colorful map of the United States, along with a black and white caricature of Nixon, with an "X" over it - is one of them. Like many artists, Larry Rivers was fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, so he supported the quixotic, but ultimately doomed Presidential candidacy of the ultra-liberal George McGovern. Indeed, despite Rivers best artistic efforts, Richard Nixon went on to win the election in a landslide and Senator McGovern suffered one of the greatest defeats in American history. But by August 1972, Richard Nixon would end up resigning the US Presidency in in disgrace. This is a scarce and historic print...
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Acetate Camel
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Diane Raised II
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist Edition: 36 Provenance: De-accessed by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., their accession numbers verso Published by Universal Limited Art Editions, with blindstamp Printed by Ben Berns...
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