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Locati Online Sale Results Oil-On-Canvas Painting By Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Brings $22,385

By Karl Pass - January 01, 1970

Based near New Hope, Pa., Locati, LLC, held its latest monthly online sale ending Nov. 16. Previews take place at the firms Pineville facility, and the sales are through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, and Bidspirit. Among the top lots was an oil-on-canvas painting by artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002), selling for $22,385. Prices reported include a buyers premium. Rivers, born in New York City, had a lot of professional hats. He was a painter, poet, musician, printmaker, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Some scholars have referred to him as the Godfather and Grandfather of Pop art, being among the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction. Rivers studied with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s. Fast forward, beginning in the 1970s, he was an integral member of the Chelsea Hotel scene as well as a frequent guest at Warhols Factory. The artist had a major retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 2002. His work has been characterized as a crossroads of abstract expressionism and Pop art. A diverse sale, a giant Asian Satsuma censer realized $4,000. A group of unusual Ottoman Turkish calligraphy instruments sold for $4,875, and a 17th-century English oak chest went for $2,500. An early 19th-century American, likely Southern, Federal tiger maple hunt board sold for $3,250, and a New England inlaid mahogany lowboy, 18th century, realized $4,375. For additional information, email michael@locatillc.com or call 215-619-2873.
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