LARRY RIVERS (AMERICAN)ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA/PAPER
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MEASUREMENTS:26"WX32"H FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of"Larry Rivers 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.In the early 1980s, Rivers and East Village figurative painter Daria Deshuk lived together and in 1985 they had a son, Sam Deshuk Rivers (now Sam D. Rivers).Rivers also maintained a relationship with poet Frank O'Hara in the late 1950s and delivered the eulogy at O'Hara's funeral in 1966.Throughout his career, Rivers maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island, and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.Rivers died in 2002, leaving behind his five children and then companion poet Jeni Olin./Private collection, no documentation.
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LARRY RIVERS (AMERICAN)ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA/PAPER
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