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Larry Rivers

Marriage Photograph (Rejected Copy - Social Patterns)

Auction Closed

May 20, 10:17 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Larry Rivers

1925 - 2002

Marriage Photograph (Rejected Copy - Social Patterns)


signed, titled and dated Aug 61 (on the reverse of each)

oil on canvas, in 2 parts

each: 71½ by 47⅞ in. 181.6 by 121.6 cm.

overall: 71½ by 95¾ in. 181.6 by 243.2 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 1979 by the present owner
Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, New York, 1972, pl. 83, n.p., illustrated in color 
Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, New York, 1989, no. 26, p. 83, illustrated in color
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Larry Rivers: Works of the 50s and 60s, 1976, no. 10, n.p.
Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Larry Rivers Retrospective: Paints and Sculpture, 1980-1981, no. 31, p. 141, illustrated in color
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, POP!?, 1999