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Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

American, 1921-2012

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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Artist: Leroy Neiman
GOLDEN GIRL
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist in pencil. Artwork size: 24.25 x 30 in. Frame size: approx. 37 x 43 in. Artwork appears to be in excellent condition. Artwork has not been examine...
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1980s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

"Golden Girl" Limited Edition Serigraph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Golden Girl" is a limited edition serigraph on paper by LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012), numbered 330/500 and hand signed by the artist. Includes Letter of Authenticity. Measures approx. 3...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Mardi Gras Parade" Limited Edition Serigraph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Home Hole at Shinnecock" is a limited edition serigraph on paper by LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012), numbered 96/300 and hand signed by the artist. Includes Letter of Authenticity. Measure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

"Jour du Soleil" Limited Edition Serigraph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Jour du Soleil" is a limited edition serigraph on paper by LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012), numbered 136/250 and hand signed by the artist. Includes Letter of Authenticity. Measures approx...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Polo Lounge
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman Title: Polo Lounge Medium: 2 Serigraphs side by side Signed: Each serigraph is Hand Signed by Leroy Neiman Edition: Each piece is numbered 264/700 Measurements: 25" x 75" total combined Condition: Very Good Note: This piece is sold UNFRAMED Description: Clockwise: Hedda Hopper, Lauren Bacall, LeRoy Neiman, Gregory Peck, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Collins, Johnny Carson, Walter Benny, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Cesar Romero, Maitre D' Nino, Frank and Barbara...
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1980s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

SAILING
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Original off set lithograph (poster) in colors on paper. Image size approx 19 x 25 inches. Sheet size 24 x 30 inches. Artist signature printed in the plate. Not hand signed. Printe...
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1970s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Offset

Along The Rail
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman Along The Rail 1972 26 1/4 x 22 in. From the rare limited edition of 200 Original serigraph in colors on paper Hand signed and numbered in pencil
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Homage to Boucher Nude
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman Homage to Boucher Nude 1973 12 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. From the rare Artist Proof edition Original serigraph in colors on paper Hand signed and numbered in pencil
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Bjorn Borg
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman Bjorn Borg 1977 23 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. From the rare limited edition of 300 Original serigraph in colors on paper Hand signed and numbered in pencil
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Elephant Tryptic
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman Elephant Tryptic 1972 12 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. From the rare Artist Proof edition of 85. Numbered 18 / 85 Original serigraph in colors on paper Hand signed and numbere...
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Super Bowl XXII ""In the Pocket""
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman Super Bowl XXII ""In the Pocket"" 1988 30 3/4 x 40 1/4 in. Original serigraph in colors on paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist
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1980s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

French Connection
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leroy Neiman French Connection 1977 31 x 38 in. Numbered from the Rare Limited Edition of 300 Serigraph in Colors on Paper Hand signed
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

1966 LeRoy Neiman 'Jose Torres Vs. "Irish" Wayne Thornton'
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 46 x 30 inches ( 116.84 x 76.2 cm ) Image Size: 46 x 30 inches ( 116.84 x 76.2 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age Additional D...
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1960s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Nadia, Comaneci Montreal Olympics Poster, 1976
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921-2012) Title: Nadia, Comaneci Montreal Olympics poster Year: 1976 Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 22 x 30.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: ...
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1970s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Diamond Head - Hawaii - Limited Edition Lithograph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Hand signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Comes with Certificate of Authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

NAGANO 2005 SPECIAL OLYMPICS
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Sheet size 36 x 29 inches. Image size approx 30 x 25 inches. Custom framed as pictured. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

Monte Carolo
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New York, NY
This original limited edition of 300, and 20 AP (artists proof).The medium is a "Serigraph" and is in excellent condition. No fading, no mat staining (known as foxing), framed in ...
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20th Century Expressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LeRoy Neiman "Polo Lounge" - Signed, Framed, Large - Find the Movie Stars!
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a signed press proof of one of Leroy Neiman's coolest images, created originally for Playboy Magazine in two panels. This never fails to get guests' attention on the wall, as...
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1980s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LeRoy Neiman, "The Great Secretariat", 27x34 Signed Limited Edition Serigraph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
The featured serigraph portrays Secretariat in full stride, nearly airborne, characteristically stretching toward the finish line. The red-hued horse and his jockey (Ron Turcotte) we...
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20th Century Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

WHITEY FORD
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
ARTIST: LEROY NEIMAN TITLE: WHITEY FORD MEDIUM: SERIGRAPH ON PAPER SIZE: 38 X 27 INCHES FRAME SIZE: 54 X 42.5 INCHES YEAR: 2003 EDITION: AP 7/35 DESCRIPTION: SIGNED BY LEROY NEIMAN A...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Roulette by Leroy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
— Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity and a premium-quality frame — Signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman — Edition size*: 254 — Artworks available*: 218
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

NAGANO 2005 SPECIAL OLYMPICS
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 300. Sheet size 36 x 29 inches. Image size approx 30 x 25 inches. Artwork is in excellent condi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Power Serve - Limited Edition Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork is signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Adriano Bull Rider by Leroy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Comes with Certificate of Authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Chicago Options - Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork is signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame -- Limited Edition Serigraph, Edition 290/400
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1990s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Joe DiMaggio - The Cut
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Published 1998. Limited Edition Serigraph. (Image Area) Dimensions 30.75″ x 38.5.” Numbered 458 pieces. Signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman. Also signed by Joe DiMaggio - as was the ...
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1990s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

“Kenya Leopard”
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Warren, NJ
Frame: 48.5 x 31.5 Picture: 39 x 22.5 Signed Artist Proof Picture is in excellent condition There’s a stain on the inside portion Around the corner from where he signs. A few scratch...
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Black Panther
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman Title: Black Panther Year Produced: 1975 Medium: Serigraph Edition: 292/300 Size: 28 1/2" x 39" Hand Signed: Hand Signed & numbered ...
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1970s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Casino, 1972
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) Title: Casino Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and marked A P ( Artist Proof)  in pencil Edition: AP Paper  Size: 31¾  x 26 inches LeRoy Neiman was a sports artist, a chronicler of contemporary lifestyles and a creator of the action-subject. He is credited with reviving figure painting during the years of the abstract movement when the figure, and realism in general, were abandoned. Neiman paints with a technique that often starts with his own Impressionistic style and continues with a process that looks very similar to the action paintings of the Abstract Expressionists. Accident and chance seem to play significant roles in determining the final appearance of his creations. This is seen in Neimans spontaneous application of paint and color. He paints quickly to grasp moments in time. His works are held in the collections of both the Baseball...
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Piazza de Popolo, 1988
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Warren, NJ
In good condition some minor scratches on the frame
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1980s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

President Nelson Mandela
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman Title: President Nelson Mandela Year Produced: 1997 Medium: Serigraph Edition: 121/145 Size: 40" x 24" Hand Signed: Hand Signed & n...
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1990s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Leroy Neiman "Cafe de la Paix" (Paris) - LARGE, Signed, Framed Artist's Proof
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of America's most popular and successful artists with a take on the world's favorite city with "Cafe de la Paix." A prized serigraph of his, since not everyone loves sports art (...
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1980s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

"Queen At Royal Ascot" 1976 NEIMAN, LeRoy
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic Leroy Neiman poster of 'Royal Ascot' published June 4- June 26, 1976 by M. Knoedler & Co. Ltd. 143 New Bond Street, London Poster Sz: ...
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1970s Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Paper

"Montreal Olympics 1976" Colorful Abstract Expressionist Figurative Lithograph
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract expressionist lithograph celebrating the 1976 Olympics in Montreal Canada by American artist LeRoy Neiman. The work f...
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1970s Expressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MYSTIC ROCK
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph in colors on paper. Hand signed numbered by the artist. From the eition of 250. Frame size approx 40 x 48 inches. Artwork appears to be in excellent condition. Has not be...
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1990s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Baden Baden, Casino" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 261/375 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 36 x 42 inches, sheet size is 42 x 48 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, three small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen

ASCOT FINISH
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 300. All reasonable offers will be considered.
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1970s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Paper

Prowling Leopard
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Prowling Leopard" 2003 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 64/425 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26.5 x 35 inches, framed size is 40 x 48 inches. It is custom framed in a gold frame, with fabric matting and green/gold spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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CELEBRITY NIGHT AT SPAGO
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist. Framed size: approx. 37 x 49 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 600. All reasonable offers w...
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1990s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Chicago Options - Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork is signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame -- Limited Edition Serigraph, Edition 274/450
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1990s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Hunt Rendez Vous - Limited Edition Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Hunt Rendez Vous by LeRoy Neiman -- Artwork is hand-signed and numbered by the LeRoy Neiman -- Comes with a certificate of authenticity -- Comes with a high quality frame
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1990s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Lion Family, Psychedelic Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) Title: Lion Family Year: 1974 Medium: Serigraph, signed in pencil Edition: 204/300 Image Size: 29 x 32 in....
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1970s American Modern Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Chez Francis - Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
- Hand signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman, - Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity and a high quality frame. - Limited Edition Serigraph, Edition 270/275
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2010s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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FOX HUNT
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. Edition of 300. All reasonable offers will be considered.
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1970s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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"Happy Birthday Mr. President" Marylin Monroe singing to Pres. John F. Kennedy
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Austin, TX
LeRoy Neiman (1921 – 2012) Title: Happy Birthday Mr. President Medium: Serigraph, edition number 441/600 Measurements: 35 x 32 inches Frame measurements: 51.5 x 47....
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20th Century American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Bistro Garden
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A serigraph print by Leroy Neiman from 1987. A colorful impressionist view of a bustling garden dining area. Signed and framed in gold wooden frame. Artist: LeRoy Neiman, America...
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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DELACROIX'S TIGER
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed numbered by the artist in pencil. Serigraph on Paper. Framed. Edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable o...
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1970s Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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The Rocket: Roger Clemens, Yankees Baseball Pitcher by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: The Rocket: Roger Clemens Year: 2003 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 192/325 Image Size: 27.5 x 36 inche...
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1970s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Million Dollar Strike, Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Million Dollar Strike (Earl Anthony) Year: 1982 Medium: Serigraph, Signed by the artist and Earl Ant...
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1980s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Polar Bears, Psychedelic Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Polar Bears Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 214/300 Image Size: 38...
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Black Break, Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Black Break Year: 1973 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP, 300 Size: 26 in. x 20.2 in. (66.04 cm x 51.3...
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1970s American Modern Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Ice Castle - Limited Edition Serigraph by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork is hand signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman -- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity -- Comes with a premium quality frame
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Field Goal, Football Color Etching by LeRoy Neiman 1972
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Field Goal Year: 1972 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 54/150 Image Size: 7.5 x 8.4 inches Size: 9 x 9.25 i...
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1970s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Punchinello Signed Lithograph on Arches, LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Punchinello with Text Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in pencil Edition: AP Paper Size: 30 x 24 inches
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1970s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Gretzky's Goal - Limited Edition - Hand signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Publisher : KNOEDLER Publishing Serigraph Series title: Gretzky's Goal Edition 385 Comes with Certificate of Authenticity and Certificate of Appraisal Signed by Leroy Neiman
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1990s Other Art Style Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Celebrity Night at Spago, Screenprint by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: LeRoy Neiman, American (1921 - 2012) Title: Celebrity Night at Spago Year: 1993 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300/600 Image Size: 24.5 x 37 inches...
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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Funny Cide - Limited Edition - Hand signed and numbered by LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Publisher : Koedler Publishsing Series Title : Funny Cide Edition : 2558 Comes with Certificate of Authenticity and Certificate of Appraisal Signed by Leroy...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Leroy Neiman Prints and Multiples

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