Larry Rivers, Portrait of Leo Singer at 50

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.

La pintura de Larry Rivers representa tanto una silla y un retrato de Leo Singer, un antiguo residente de Rancho Mirage que donó una colección de habitaciones miniatura al entonces Palm Springs Desert Museum en 1990. La pintura fusiona persona y armadura para crear una sensación tanto de modelo individual como de objeto cotidiano. Rivers estuvo comprometido con el retrato a lo largo de su carrera, y a menudo creó pinturas híbridas que hacen referencia a objetos escultóricos como la silla que se ve aquí.