10"x18" Titled "NEXT TIME" 2015

" Prison art Impressionist  Oil Painting by listed artist Lawrence Larry Salander  Done while imprisoned At Rikers Island in NYC. This piece titled "NEXT TIME" And signed lower right done 12/18/15

12/15 close to the end of his 6 year sentence. This is an oil painted on cardboard Larry painted on what ever he could get his hands on that would work as his canvas, cardboard backs of cereal boxes etc.Portrayed in the media as the Bernie Madoff of art, Lawrence B. Salander (b. 1949) was an art dealer and artist whose business, the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, was cited by the Robb Report in 2003 as the world’s top art gallery.  After a 40-year career as an art dealer his good fortune began to turn and by late 2007 Salander was sued by numerous customers and business partners who claimed that his gallery had defrauded them of millions of dollars. This story made international headlines not just because of the amount of money involved in the crime ($120 million) but also because his victims included tennis star John McEnroe, the estate of abstract expressionist artist Robert De Niro, Sr. (actor Robert De Niro’s father), Earl Davis (son of modernist painter Stuart Davis), and John Crawford (son of the artist Ralston Crawford). In the end, 29 wealthy friends and investors had been swindled by Salander through various con schemes.  On August 3, 2010 Lawrence Salander was sentenced to a minimum 6-year prison term for his crimes.