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Rivers' interest in working in relief in the mid-1960s detoured him from straight printmaking to multiples such as this three-dimensional facsimile of the two sides of a French 100 franc banknote.

Found objects-menus, cigarette packages and French currency-became central to Rivers' art by 1960, but unlike other Pop artists, who were physically or photographically inserting such objects into their paintings, Rivers redrew them with emphasis on selected words or images.