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Playboy | Alfred Leslie Diana Kurt Painting
Playboy | Alfred Leslie Diana Kurt Painting
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Alfred Leslie (American, 1927-2023) original synthetic polymer on canvas painting titled "Diana Kurt," signed, dated 1966, and inscribed verso.

This item appeared on pp. 148 of the January 1967 issue Playboy magazine as part of the pictorial "The Playmate as Fine Art: Eleven contemporary artists interpret Playboy's provacative gatefold girl" with the caption, "Like Ben Johnson, Leslie believes that American puritanism has discouraged nudity even in fine art: "If the objectivity of the American colonial painter John Singleton Copley had been applied to a nude," Leslie told PLAYBOY, "he would have been burned as a warlock."

PROVENANCE Lot 112 "The Year of the Rabbit: The Playboy Collection," Christie's New York, December 8, 2010

LITERATURE Arthur Paul, Beyond Illustration: The Art of Playboy, (Chicago: Playboy Magazine, 1971), catalogue accompanying an exhibition that traveled in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan between 1971 and 1974. 

EXHIBITED Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C., "En Grisaille: American Paitings, 1901-1981," November 7, 1987 - December 9, 1987.



60 x 40 inches

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Playboy | Alfred Leslie Diana Kurt Painting

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