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Sculpture on its last legs

By Charles Waterstreet.   The Sidney Morning Herald, January 15 2012.

 

THE New York modern art world, as we know it, will officially end on January 22. The Sag Harbour village zoning board of appeals has ruled that a five-metre tall, deliciously naughty sculpture of a woman's legs be finally parted - from its owners. For now, the Larry Rivers piece is mounted appropriately on the front lawn of art lovers Ruth Vered and Janet Lehr.

Legs has stood proudly since 1969, when Rivers and other artists were commissioned by the now-extinct species of creative shopping-centre entrepreneurs to endow the concrete wilderness that became Smith Haven Mall on Long Island. Rivers made a structure called Forty Feet of Fashion and Legs. Only Legs remains on Vered's front lawn - the 40 feet of fashion has joined 30 Odd Foot of Grunts in the pits of history. Vered and her partner planted the sculpture putside their converted church home after Rivers died in 2002.     Click here to read more

 

Posted In: Lifestyle on Saturday January 21, 2012

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