Larry Poons

(American, born 1937)

Larry Poons is an American abstract painter. Though he originally rose to fame for his Op Art paintings of the 1960s—with monochrome canvases replete with staccato marks that draw the eye across the surface in a frenetic dance—Poons’ practice has shifted through various aesthetic modes, most recently in a loose, painterly style akin to Abstract Expressionism or Lyrical Abstraction. Employing formal, allover compositions that recalls early work of Willem de Kooning or perhaps Jackson Pollock, Poons’ surfaces exude a wild energy even as the artist worked into his 80s. Writing for Hyperallergic, critic Peter Malone remarks that “it is genuinely exhilarating to witness a painter who lived and worked at a time when the transgression of depth in the picture field was taboo, finally set free to discover, perhaps rediscover, the vitality that abstract painting can still engender.” Born on October 1, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan, he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Students League of New York in the early 1960s. Poons now lives and works in New York, returning to the League in 1997 where he continues to teach.

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Untitled (15-A), 1976

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Untitled (15-A), 1976

Sale Date: April 24, 2024

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Untitled, 1980

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Untitled, 1980

Sale Date: April 11, 2024

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Yellow, Blue, Grey, 1979

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Yellow, Blue, Grey, 1979

Sale Date: April 4, 2024

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Blue, Green, 1979

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Blue, Green, 1979

Sale Date: April 4, 2024

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Untitled (from the Ten Works by Ten Painters , 1964

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Untitled (from the Ten Works by Ten Painters , 1964

Sale Date: March 7, 2024

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Falling Thru States 95A-1, 1995

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Falling Thru States 95A-1, 1995

Sale Date: March 4, 2024

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Cherry Bobalink

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Cherry Bobalink

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Untitled (Rays), 1975

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Untitled (Rays), 1975

Sale Date: November 14, 2023

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Untitled (from the Ten Works by Ten Painters , 1964

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Untitled (from the Ten Works by Ten Painters , 1964

Sale Date: November 16, 2023

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Untitled

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Sale Date: November 16, 2023

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Untitled (77 A-4), 1977

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Untitled (77 A-4), 1977

Sale Date: November 16, 2023

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Untitled, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten..., 1964

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Untitled, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten..., 1964

Sale Date: October 25, 2023

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Group of Four Screenprints

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Group of Four Screenprints

Sale Date: October 25, 2023

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Untitled (78 D-6), 1978

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Untitled (78 D-6), 1978

Sale Date: October 3, 2023

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Untitled, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten..., 1964

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Untitled, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten..., 1964

Sale Date: September 20, 2023

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Group of Four Screenprints

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Group of Four Screenprints

Sale Date: September 20, 2023

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Group of Four Screenprints

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Group of Four Screenprints

Sale Date: August 16, 2023

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Komposition, 1979–1980

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Komposition, 1979–1980

Sale Date: August 8, 2023

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Untitled, 1975

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Untitled, 1975

Sale Date: August 8, 2023

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Untitled From

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Untitled From "Ten From Leo Castelli," 1967, 1967

Sale Date: July 11, 2023

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Four Untitled Screenprints

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Four Untitled Screenprints

Sale Date: July 19, 2023

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Cherry Bobalink, 2021

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Cherry Bobalink, 2021

Sale Date: June 22, 2023

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Smoky Fall Days (Ancestors), 1975

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Smoky Fall Days (Ancestors), 1975

Sale Date: June 29, 2023

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Untitled

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Sale Date: June 8, 2023

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