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“One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.”

Quote by Larry Rivers

Book:Drawings and digressions

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Drawings and digressions

This book features a variety of drawings accompanied by reflective and sometimes philosophical essays. more

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Larry Rivers was a renowned American artist known for his unique painting style and interdisciplinary artistic practices. His works blended elements of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, profoundly influencing 20th-century American art. more

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