Larry Rivers, Portrait of Leo Singer at 50

1972‑1985

Larry Rivers’s painting both depicts a chair and represents a portrait of Leo Singer, a former Rancho Mirage resident who donated a Miniature Room Collection to the then Palm Springs Desert Museum in 1990. The painting merges person and armature to create a sense of both individual sitter and everyday object. Rivers was committed to portraiture throughout his career, and often created hybrid paintings that reference sculptural objects like the chair seen here.