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LeRoy Neiman
LEROY NEIMAN Classic "Superbowl XIX" 49ers vs Dolphins serigraph signed Numbered
1985

Name: LEROY NEIMAN Classic "Superbowl XIX" 49ers vs Dolphins serigraph signed Numbered
Brand: LeRoy Neiman

$3,990List Price

About the Item

LEROY NEIMAN Classic "Superbowl XIX" 49ers vs Dolphins MEDIUM: Serigraph CONDITION: Excellent IMAGE SIZE: 26 7/8" x 38 EDITION SIZE: A limited edition of 600 numbered impressions, signed and numbered by the artist. RELEASE: 1985 LeRoy Neiman American Artist: b. 1921-2012. For the last 50 years, LeRoy Neiman has been the world's most recognized popular artist. He created a vibrant energetic style that set his art apart from all others. His works encompass sports, entertainment, travel, and adventure. His was a life well lived, and he made us a part of his extraordinary journey, seeing and doing things we could only dream of. Bringing these images to life, sports, golf, hockey, basetball, baseball, skiing, sailing, racing, famous locations, New York, Europpe, safari animals, cafes, landscapes, horses, stock markets, portraits, famous celebrities, athletes, LeRoy has enriched the art world, and brought joy and excitement to millions of collectors worldwide. His vision has captured moments in time that can never be forgotten. The art of Leroy Neiman is unique without any real comparison. He has broken the barriers of many of the most hallowed assumptions of modern art history and contemporary criticism and his art is loved by millions of people throughout America and around the world. Sadly Leroy Neiman passed away on June 20th 2012. Leroy Neiman was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, De Paul University, and the University of Illinois. Neiman taught at the Art Institute of Chicago's school for ten years. Neiman moved to New York City in 1963 when he had his first one-man show at the Hammer Gallery. For the next 49 years Neiman continued to portray the people and events of the world he knew best, or which intrigued him most. His best-known works are sports scenes, a reflection, he believed, of the fact that sports are universally a dominant force. LeRoy Neiman was the official artist for ABC-TV at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976, and at the Winter Olympics of 1980. Neiman's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Hermitage in Leningrad. Before his recent passing he endowed Columbia University with a school for fine art print making.

Creator:
LeRoy Neiman (1921 - 2012, American)
Creation Year:
1985
Dimensions:
Height: 26.75 in (67.95 cm)Width: 38 in (96.52 cm)
More Editions Sizes:
A limited edition of 600 numbered impressions, signed by the artist.Price: $3,990
Medium:
Screen
Movement Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Boynton Beach, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU111813957982

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LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman, born LeRoy Runquist, is best known for his vibrantly colored paintings and screen prints, which draw on Impressionism and Pop Art and frequently feature portraits of athletes and musicians as well as depictions of sporting events. He is renowned for creating art during live coverage of the Olympics and other major American and international sports competitions. He once commented, “I use (bold) color to emphasize the scent, the spirit, and the feeling of the thing I’ve experienced.”

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Neiman showed an early aptitude for drawing. After returning home from WWII, he studied at the Saint Paul School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where his classmates included Robert Indiana and Leon Golub. Upon graduation in 1950, he began teaching at SAIC.

In 1953, his oil painting Idle Boats won first prize at the Twin City Show, where the Minneapolis Art Institute purchased it. Neiman’s reputation quickly grew, and museums such as the Carnegie Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington purchased his works.

In 1954, Neiman’s famous association with Playboy magazine began to take shape. Hugh Hefner commissioned Neiman to create an illustration for this fledgling magazine, and his piece won the 1954 Chicago Art Directors Award. This led to a relationship with Playboy that lasted five decades and included Neiman writing and illustrating the “Man at His Leisure” section and the creation of the well-known “Femlin” — a female nymph wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heels — which appeared on the “Party Jokes” page in every issue since 1955.

In 1970, the 5th Dimension commissioned Neiman to create a cover illustration for the pop group’s album Portrait. In 1994, he created the illustration used for the playbill and the immense Broadway mural for the musical Busker Alley. He was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the highest honor of the state of Illinois, the Order of Lincoln, in 2009.

Today, you can find Neiman’s works in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields), among others.

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