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.

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Lari Pittman (127 results)
This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

Lari Pittman

This Landscape, Beloved and Despised,..., 1989

Sale Date: January 19, 2024

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Sans titre # 6, 2003

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Sans titre # 6, 2003

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Sans titre # 10, 2003

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Sans titre # 10, 2003

Sale Date: October 23, 2023

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Untitled #12, 2007

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Untitled #12, 2007

Sale Date: October 5, 2023

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Lari Pittman

Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: October 5, 2023

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Untitled, 2002

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 2002

Sale Date: September 29, 2023

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Counting to confront one's fatigue, 1990

Lari Pittman

Counting to confront one's fatigue, 1990

Sale Date: July 26, 2023

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Spontaneous Generation, 1984

Lari Pittman

Spontaneous Generation, 1984

Sale Date: July 26, 2023

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Thought-Form of The Beginning and The End of , 2012

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Thought-Form of The Beginning and The End of , 2012

Sale Date: June 28, 2023

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Bookmark, 1992

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Bookmark, 1992

Sale Date: June 21, 2023

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Optimal Setting for Atmospheric Conditions..., 2001

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Optimal Setting for Atmospheric Conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: April 12, 2023

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Untitled #24 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1993

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Untitled #24 (A Decorated Chronology of..., 1993

Sale Date: March 28, 2023

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Untitled, 1998

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 1998

Sale Date: March 28, 2023

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Untitled No. 2, 2011

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Untitled No. 2, 2011

Sale Date: March 10, 2023

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Untitled #3, 2009

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Untitled #3, 2009

Sale Date: March 2, 2023

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All That Glitters is Gold (for Liberace),..., 2000

Lari Pittman

All That Glitters is Gold (for Liberace),..., 2000

Sale Date: January 19, 2023

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The Scent of a Flower, for a Moment, Makes..., 1988

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The Scent of a Flower, for a Moment, Makes..., 1988

Sale Date: September 30, 2022

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Nesting Instinct, 1982

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Nesting Instinct, 1982

Sale Date: August 20, 2022

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Untitled, 1998

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 1998

Sale Date: May 18, 2022

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Untitled, 1986

Lari Pittman

Untitled, 1986

Sale Date: April 27, 2022

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This Landscape, Beloved and Despised…, 1989

Lari Pittman

This Landscape, Beloved and Despised…, 1989

Sale Date: March 17, 2022

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Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Lari Pittman

Optimal setting for atmospheric conditions..., 2001

Sale Date: December 16, 2021

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PITTMAN, LARI. Whoever of the Flock..., 1994

Lari Pittman

PITTMAN, LARI. Whoever of the Flock..., 1994

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

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Like You, Declarative but Contrite but..., 1995

Lari Pittman

Like You, Declarative but Contrite but..., 1995

Sale Date: November 18, 2021

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