Leroy Neiman Sports
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Ink
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Etching
1980s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Archival Pigment
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Color, Lithograph
20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Color, Lithograph
20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Color, Lithograph
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Screen
1960s Pop Art Paintings
Acrylic, Oil
1960s Pop Art Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media
1970s Figurative Prints
Screen
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Animal Prints
Screen
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Gouache
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Archival Paper
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Screen, Paper
1960s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1980s Street Art Figurative Prints
Screen
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Antique 1850s Prints
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Offset, Pencil, Lithograph
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Prints
Paper
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Screen
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art More Art
Offset
1990s Pop Art Animal Prints
Screen
1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Vinyl, Resin
Early 2000s Pop Art Animal Prints
Screen
Recent Sales
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Oil
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Etching
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Lithograph
1970s Post-Impressionist More Prints
Silk
1950s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
1970s Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Etching
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1960s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
1980s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1960s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
1990s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Gouache
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Gouache
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1980s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Etching
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Gouache
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Felt Pen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Gouache
1980s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Pen
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Laser
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
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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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