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Leroy Neiman Art

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
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 Art

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Paper, Offset

ORIGINAL 1965 JOE NAMATH Oil Painting
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is an original 1965 oil painting by Leroy Neiman (1921-2012) famous American Sport Artist Painting Depicts the famous Joe Namath playing the Jets Neiman was famous for...
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1960s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Art

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Acrylic, Oil

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 Art

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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 Art

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Giclée

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 Art

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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 Art

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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 Art

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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 Art

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Giclée

LeRoy Neiman 'Femling - Happy New Year 1992' Original ink & watercolor
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012) Title: Femling - Happy New Years Type: Original Material: Ink & Paper Year Produced: 1992 Medium: ink on paper Size: 8.25" x 13" Framed approx.: 20...
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1990s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Art

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Watercolor, Ink

LeRoy Neiman 'Femling with A HOT Iron' Original ink & watercolor
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012) Title: Femling with A HOT Iron Type: Original Material: Ink & Paper Year Produced: 1992 Medium: ink on paper Size: 8.25" x 13" Framed Approx.: 20x...
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1960s Contemporary Leroy Neiman Art

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Ink, Watercolor

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 Art

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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 Art

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Screen

Skateboarder, LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
LEROY NEIMAN (1921-2012) Known the world over for his striking, vibrant depictions of sporting events, leisure activities and other social gatherings, Leroy Neiman is indisputably on...
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1970s Expressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Screen

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 Art

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Lithograph

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 Art

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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 Art

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Archival Pigment

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 Art

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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 Art

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Screen

Original Sinatra on the Set
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Graphite and Pen Sketch on Paper 12 1/4″ x 15 5/8″ Viewable 26″ x 29 1/2″ Framed Circa 1960’s
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1960s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Graphite

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 Art

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Paper, 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 Art

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Screen

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 Art

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

Reclining Woman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Pen and Ink on Paper Dimensions 12″ x 16″ unframed 26 x 30 Framed Circa 1959.
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1950s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Ink, Pen

Original Richard Burton, The Robe Film
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Graphite Sketch on Paper 1953 / Signed 1959 Inscribed “Sketch for Robe Feature” 10 5/8″ x 13 1/2″ Viewable 25″ x 29 1/2″ Framed The Robe, a fictional Biblical epic film was ...
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1950s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Graphite

Equestrian Horseman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Equestrian Horseman" is a mixed media on paper by LeRoy Neiman. The artwork is signed lower right, "Leroy Neiman '66". The framed piece measures 40 3/4 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. LeRoy N...
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1960s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Art

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Paper, Mixed Media

Brad Park
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Mixed Media on Paper Dimensions 14.25″ x 11.25″ unframed. Approximately 28.25″ x 25.25″ Framed Dated 1971.
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1970s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Mixed Media

Original Bruno SamMartino vs. Baron Mikel Scicluna 1
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
LeRoy Neiman Original Mixed media on paper; including tempera, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and conti crayon Dated 1966 9 1/2″ x 9 1/4″ viewabl...
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1960s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Conté, Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolor

Sunbather
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original mixed-media on paper Dimensions 6″ x 7″ unframed 20.5″ x 21.5″ framed. This is a study for a work entitled “Les Baigneuses” dated 1971 and is included in LeRoy Neiman’s cat...
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1970s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Mixed Media

He Lost His Head Over Her
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Graphite on Paper Dimensions 12.5″ x 8″ Viewable 27″ x 22.5″ Framed. Signed by Artist. Circa 1962.
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1960s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Graphite

Miracle on Ice Study
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
LeRoy Neiman "Miracle on Ice Study" Original Mixed Media on Artist Board 11 1/2″ x 14 1/2″
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1980s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Permanent Marker

Original Bruno SamMartino vs. Baron Mikel Scicluna 2
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
LeRoy Neiman Original Mixed media on paper; including tempera, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and conte' crayon Dated 1966 8 1/2″ x 16 1/4″ viewab...
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1960s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Conté, Pastel, Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor

Club Alabam, Dunbar Hotel , LA
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Pen and Ink on paper Dimensions 10.5″ x 13″ unframed 24 x 27″ approximate framed Circa 1959
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1950s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Mixed Media

Large illustrated Carnaval gift book in bespoke box (Hand Signed and Numbered)
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New York, NY
LeRoy Neiman Carnaval gift book in bespoke box (Hand Signed and Numbered), 1981 Hardback Monograph with Vinyl Dust Jacket. Hand Signed by Artist on Colophon on Vellum parchment pape...
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1980s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Art

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Ink, Mixed Media, Offset

Elephant Stampede Tapestry
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Elephant Stampede Tapestry Published 1988 Image Area Dimensions 60" x 81" Hand Woven Silk Tapestry Edition Size 88 Gallery Retail $25,000. Tapestry 35 from the edition of only 88 pi...
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1980s Abstract Leroy Neiman Art

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Silk

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 Art

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Screen

"Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome"
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by LeRoy Neiman (1921 – 2012). LeRoy Neiman was born in 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He displayed a great talent for art at a young age, working as an illustrator for local grocery stores as a teenager. Even after being drafted into the Army in 1942, he spent his spare time painting murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls, where he served as a cook. Once the Army’s Special Services Division took notice of his talents, he was sent to work on painting stage sets for Red Cross shows in Germany after the war. Upon returning to the United States, Neiman enrolled briefly at the St. Paul School of Art before attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later, teaching figure drawing and fashion illustration there. While working at the Art Institute of Chicago, Neiman discovered his primary medium, enamel house paint, when a janitor threw out some half-empty cans of it next door to his apartment. From this medium, he embraced a technique of rapid paint application. While freelancing as an illustrator for the Chicago department store, Carson Pirie Scott, in the 1950s, Neiman met Hugh Hefner, who would become a great friend and help establish his artistic reputation. In 1954, Hefner showed Neiman’s paintings to Playboy’s Art...
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Mid-20th Century Leroy Neiman Art

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Paper, Oil

“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 Art

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Lithograph

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 Art

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Screen, Paper

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 Art

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Screen

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 Art

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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 Art

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Screen

Nadia, LeRoy Neiman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
LEROY NEIMAN (1921-2012) Known the world over for his striking, vibrant depictions of sporting events, leisure activities and other social gatherings, Leroy Neiman is indisputably on...
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1970s Expressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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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 Art

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Lithograph

Shaq, LeRoy Neiman - ATHLETE & ARTIST SIGNED
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
LEROY NEIMAN (1921-2012) Known the world over for his striking, vibrant depictions of sporting events, leisure activities and other social gatherings, Leroy Neiman is indisputably on...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Leroy Neiman Art

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Screen

Eileen Ford at '21, (Portrait of founder of Ford Modeling Agency at the 21 Club)
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in New York, NY
LeRoy Neiman Eileen Ford at '21' (Portrait of Eileen Ford), 1978 Original drawing done in marker on original offset lithograph New York's 21 Club menu. Sig...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Leroy Neiman Art

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Permanent Marker, Mixed Media, Ink, Offset

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 Art

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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 Art

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Screen, Paper

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 Art

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Archival Paper, Lithograph

"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 Art

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Lithograph

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 Art

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Screen

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 Art

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Screen, Paper

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 Art

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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 Art

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"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 Art

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Paper

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 Art

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Screen, Paper

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 Art

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Archival Pigment

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 Art

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Screen

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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1980s American Impressionist Leroy Neiman Art

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Screen

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Find a wide variety of authentic Leroy Neiman art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of green, blue, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Leroy Neiman in screen print, paper, lithograph and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Impressionist style. Not every interior allows for large Leroy Neiman art, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Norman Rockwell, Michel Delacroix, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Leroy Neiman art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $275,000, while the average work can sell for $4,400.

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