Lari Pittman

(American, born 1952)

Lari Pittman is a contemporary American artist best known for his collage-like paintings and prints which integrate multiple pictorial languages into a single work. Melding advertisements, gestural abstraction, Surrealism, Victorian silhouettes, and Folk art, the artist revels in dichotomies of ugliness and beauty, chaos and calm. Like the artist Philip Taafe, Pittman takes on grandiose ideas of death, transcendence, and semiotics in a way both light hearted and profound. “I want to offer a painting that somehow the viewer has to stand in front of it and almost not believe it,” he said of his work. “But in the act of not believing it, what they’re actually seeing, they get swept away in it.” Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, CA, Pittman received both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He has gone on to be included in four Whitney Biennials and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Pittman continues to live and work in Los Angeles, CA with his partner Roy Dowell. Today, his works are in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Lari Pittman Artworks

Lari Pittman (174 results)
Untitled #27, 1987

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Untitled #27, 1987

Sale Date: March 1, 2015

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Existential and Needy, 1991

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Existential and Needy, 1991

Sale Date: October 25, 2014

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Untitled, 1997

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Untitled, 1997

Sale Date: September 23, 2014

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1776, 1984

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1776, 1984

Sale Date: September 24, 2014

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The Camouflage Produced by Trauma, 2012

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The Camouflage Produced by Trauma, 2012

Sale Date: May 14, 2014

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Veronica's Veil, 1978

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Veronica's Veil, 1978

Sale Date: March 7, 2014

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Untitled, 2000

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Untitled, 2000

Sale Date: February 23, 2014

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A Decorated Chronology of Insistence and..., 1993

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A Decorated Chronology of Insistence and..., 1993

Sale Date: May 15, 2013

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Untitled #42 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1994

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Untitled #42 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1994

Sale Date: March 7, 2013

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Untitled, 1998

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Untitled, 1998

Sale Date: March 7, 2013

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Untitled, 2003

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Untitled, 2003

Sale Date: October 13, 2012

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Existential and Needy, 1990

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Existential and Needy, 1990

Sale Date: October 13, 2012

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Untitled, 2002

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Untitled, 2002

Sale Date: March 9, 2012

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The desire, beloved and despised, continues..., 1989

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The desire, beloved and despised, continues..., 1989

Sale Date: November 9, 2011

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All that glitters is gold (for Liberace), 2000

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All that glitters is gold (for Liberace), 2000

Sale Date: June 15, 2011

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Bookmark, 1992

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Bookmark, 1992

Sale Date: June 26, 2011

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Untitled NR. 6 (View from the kitchen), 2005

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Untitled NR. 6 (View from the kitchen), 2005

Sale Date: May 11, 2011

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: March 10, 2011

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Untitled, 2004

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Untitled, 2004

Sale Date: November 13, 2009

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The flare, 1984

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The flare, 1984

Sale Date: May 4, 2009

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Nationalism, 1984

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Nationalism, 1984

Sale Date: May 4, 2009

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All that glitters is gold (for Liberace), 1989

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All that glitters is gold (for Liberace), 1989

Sale Date: March 6, 2009

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The flare, 1984

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The flare, 1984

Sale Date: November 18, 2008

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Untitled, 2007

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Untitled, 2007

Sale Date: October 20, 2008

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