Leroy Neiman International Auction
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Photographic Film, Mixed Media
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
People Also Browsed
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Screen, Paper
1980s Pop Art More Art
Paper, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Resin, Vinyl
1980s Pop Art More Art
Offset
1980s Pop Art More Art
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art More Art
Resin, Vinyl
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Paper, Engraving
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art More Art
Resin, Vinyl
1950s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Paper
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Archival Pigment, Black and White
1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Enamel
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media
Recent Sales
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Ink, Gouache
1990s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist More Prints
Silk
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1970s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Pastel
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Pastel
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Oil
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1980s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1980s Post-Impressionist More Art
Tapestry
1980s Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Impressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s Pop Art Interior Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Gouache
LeRoy Neiman for sale on 1stDibs
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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