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Larry Rivers

25 Birds of the Northeast

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Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Larry Rivers

1923 - 2002


25 Birds of the Northeast

signed (lower right); signed and dated (on the reverse)

oil on canvas mounted on sculpted foamboard mounted on panel

58 by 80 ½ in.

147.3 by 204.5 cm.

Executed in 1985-86.

Private Collection

Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary Cutouts, November 1986 - January 1987

Vivien Raynor, “Toward Defining 'Contemporary Cutouts,’” The New York Times, 13 February 1987, p. C28

William Zimmer, “Cutouts: Images Escape The Painting,” The New York Times, 10 January 1988, p. 11WC20

Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, New York 1989, pl. 99, p. 154, illustrated in color and p. 349