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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Larry Rivers, Rainbow Rembrandt III, 1977
Lot 58

Larry Rivers, Rainbow Rembrandt III, 1977

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
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(New York, 1923-2002)

A modern derivation from Rembrandt van Rijn, The Polish Rider, circa 1655, in the Frick Collection, color annotations at top, signed lower right "Larry Rivers '77", signed and titled verso, acrylic, graphite on paper, 30 x 34-1/2 in.; fine gold leaf frame and liner with silk mat, 39-1/4 x 43-1/4 x 1-3/8 in.

Provenance: Irving Galleries, Palm Beach (label verso); Private Collection

Note: This modern interpretation of Rembrandt's composition, is one of at least a few drawings and eventual paintings. Some were exhibited by the Robert Miller Gallery in New York in an October 1977 exhibition titled Rainbow Rembrandt.

Rivers was one of the first artists to really merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.
A talented musician, Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947–48. 

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Irving Galleries, Palm Beach (label verso); Private Collection

not examined out of frame, foxing, light toning; frame with abrasions

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