LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) American, Serigraph
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LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) American, Serigraph. Titled 'Breakaway'. Depicting Heisman Trophy 1972 Winner Johnny Rodgers breaking away from the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Signed in pencil in the lower right. Numbered 297/300 in the lower left. Overall Size: 30 x 36 1/2 in. Sight Size: 15 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. #4628 . LeRoy Neiman is known for Athletic genre, sport figure and humor painting, illustration, teaching. LeRoy Neiman, whose brilliantly colored, impressionistic sketches of sporting events and the international high life made him one of the most popular artists in the United States. 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 ?" 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.
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LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) American, Serigraph
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