Lari Pittman

American | 1952

Lari Pittman is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1952. His work is currently being shown at Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Broad have featured Lari Pittman's work in the past.Lari Pittman's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 275 USD to 307,689 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 307,689 USD for Thought-Form of The Beginning and The End of Identity, sold at Sotheby's London in 2023. Lari Pittman has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in March 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

The Sounds of Belief, To an Atheist, Are Very Touching - Lari Pittman

The Sounds of Belief, To an Atheist, Are Very Touching ,1988

By Lari Pittman

-4%

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Untitled Nr. 6 (View from the Kitchen) - Lari Pittman

Untitled Nr. 6 (View from the Kitchen) ,2005

By Lari Pittman

+49%

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Existential and Needy ,1990

By Lari Pittman

+288%

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled ,1989

By Lari Pittman

-86%

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Untitled ,2006

By Lari Pittman

+27%

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Untitled #11 ,2003

By Lari Pittman

-46%

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Current Exhibitions

A field of bloom and hum

Tang Museum

Saratoga Springs | New York | USA

Feb 14,2025 - Jul 20,2025

Past Exhibitions

Lari Pittman: Magic Realism

Long Museum, West Bund

Xuhui | Shanghai | China

Aug 17,2024 - Oct 20,2024

Couples Squared

Southampton Arts Center

Southampton | New York | USA

Jul 27,2024 - Sep 14,2024

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Articles

e-flux 17/03/2025

The Jeonnam Museum of Art presents Lari Pittman: Mirror & Metaphor,聽the first museum survey in Korea of work by celebrated Los Angeles鈥揵ased painter Lari Pittman.

Observer 21/02/2025

Art insiders rallied behind the L.A. community, and dealers who ventured to the West Coast found renewed optimism in a revitalized American market.

Los Angeles Times 21/10/2024

PST Art presents city dwellers with the opportunity to head to places they haven鈥檛 been, particularly when it comes to exhibits staged at organizations not typically associated with the arts.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Best known for his brightly colored, densely layered works, which combine readymade iconography and his own symbolic language, Pittman draws on the art historical tradition of painting, while simultaneously... 鈥�
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Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

鈥� ..Known for dense compositions that merge bold graphic design with historical modes of figuration, Pittman intricately crafts paintings shaped by a collision of abstract, geometric, and figurative forms... 鈥�
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Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street)

鈥� ..1952) is known for his exuberant, colorful, and graphically complex works... 鈥�
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

鈥� ..Orangerie will provide a unique and unparalleled opportunity to view the history and breadth of Pittman's artistic practice... 鈥�
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Regen Projects

鈥� ..Pittman's work incorporates a cacophony of color, the blending of figuration and abstraction, an intricate and multi-faceted surface, and an expansive and oscillating image field to create an idiosyncratic... 鈥�
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Regen Projects