Larry Rivers (1923-2002) - Early Chaplin

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil by the artist.\nEdition of 150 on Arches paper. (The numbering may differ from that visible in the photograph)\n\nIn perfect condition. Careful packaging and international tracked shipping.\n\nBorn in 1925 in New York (the Bronx), Yitzroch Loiza Grossbergvit works in New York. He initially studied music at the Juilliard School in New York (1944-1945), where he befriended Miles Davis and became a jazz saxophonist under the pseudonym Larry Rivers. From 1947 to 1951, he pursued artistic training with Hans Hofmann and then studied art history at New York University. His first solo exhibition took place in 1949. In the early fifties he reintroduced figuration into American painting and then offered a very personal take on Pop Art, by subverting the codes of great paintings that have marked art history, such as Courbet’s The Burial at Ornans or Manet’s Olympia. Larry Rivers died in August 2002 in Southampton, United States.