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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Paper, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Animal Prints
Archival Pigment
1980s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
People Also Browsed
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Screen, Paper
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper, Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Interior Prints
Screen
1980s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Archival Pigment
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Paper, Offset
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Folk Art Portrait Prints
Screen
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Offset, Pencil, Lithograph
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
Recent Sales
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Screen
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Lithograph, Offset
Early 2000s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Lithograph
1990s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Plastic, Plexiglass, Paper
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
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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