RoGallery Downtown Lion by Larry Rivers (Etching)

Description:
Downtown Lion Etching:

• Etching on wove paper
• Signed and numbered in pencil
• Year: 1967
• Edition: 3/24

Painter and sculptor Larry Rivers (1923- 2002) was born in New York City. In the 1950s, he became one of the first artists to explore the figurative style which follows abstract expressionism. Rivers”s art training began in the 1940s, after he turned away from a career as a jazz saxophonist. From 1947 to 1948, he studied at New York University with Hans Hoffman and William Baziotes. He then toured England, France and Italy. Upon his return, he became an integral part of the New York City art scene. While Rivers”s style strikes a balance between abstract expressionism and realistic renderings, his work retains the influence of Hoffman in its free, painterly brushwork. Tightly drawn images float ambiguously in space with blurred images and smears. These blurred, smudgy images were not accidental, but part of a deliberate process. About them, Rivers once said, “I have had a bad arm and am not interested in the art of holding up mirrors.” Rivers began sculpting in 1953, and has produced life-size outdoor figures in welded metal, with subsequent works in plexiglass and wood. In 1965 he 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. During 1967 he was in London collaborating with the American painter Howard Kanovitz. Established as one of America”s most important postwar artists, Rivers continued, until his death on 14 August 2002, to exhibit regularly both in the United States and abroad and to create work that combined realistically rendered images within a loosely brushed, quasi-abstract background. His primary gallery being the Marlborough Gallery in New York City. In 2002 a major retrospective of Rivers” work was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Material:
Etching

Care:
Dust with a dry cloth

Brand:
RoGallery

Origin:
United States

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