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Larry Rivers

Portrait of Frank O'Hara

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September 26, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Larry Rivers

1923 - 2002


Portrait of Frank O'Hara

signed and date '52 (along the right edge)

oil on canvas

54 by 40 in.

137.2 by 101.6 cm.

Executed in 1952.

Margo Leavin Gallery, West Hollywood

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, New York 1971, no. 33, p. 67, illustrated

Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, New York 1989, no. 2, p. 59, illustrated in color 

Chloë Ashby, “Captured on canvas: portraits at Frieze Masters,” Financial Times, October 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Pintura Estadounidense, Expresionismo Abstracto, October 1996 - January 1997, no. 92, p. 499, illustrated in color

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Larry Rivers, Paintings and Drawings: 1951-2001, May - June 2005, no. 12, p. 19, illustrated in color