In the second half of the 1940s jazz musician Larry Rivers retrained to become a visual artist. He painted objects from everyday life because he found them interesting, not as a commentary on society. From the early 1960s a recurring motif is the American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), as depicted on the cigar boxes of the Webster Cigar Company. In 1966 Rivers made a multiple (edition of 20) in the form of a box containing fake cigars.

Specifications
Title | Cigar Box |
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Material and technique | Hinged wood box with painted, screenprinted, photolithographed, and collaged wood, board, canvas, paper, and plexiglass |
Object type |
Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 40 cm Width 33 cm Depth 27 cm |
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Artists |
Artist:
Larry Rivers
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Accession number | BEK 1882 (MK) |
Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Gift Hans Sonnenberg, 2012 |
Department | Modern Art |
Acquisition date | 2012 |
Creation date | in 1966 |
Collector | Collector / Hans Sonnenberg |
Internal exhibitions |
Meneer Delta, een galeriehouder en verzamelaar in het museum (2012) |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Collage
> Adding and binding materials
> General technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Photo lithograph
> Photographic printing technique
> Mechanical
> Planographic printing
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Silkscreen print
> Stencil screen printing technique
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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