Leroy Neiman Olympics
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Paper, Screen
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1960s Pop Art Paintings
Acrylic, Oil
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Screen
1980s American Modern Mixed Media
Chalk, Acrylic
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Paper, Oil
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Screen
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Screen
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Screen
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Oil
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Canvas, Giclée
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20th Century Unknown Posters
Wood, Paper
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen, Paper
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen, Paper
1970s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Paper
Late 20th Century American Posters
Paper
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Ink
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Posters
Paper
1980s Pop Art Interior Prints
Screen
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Posters
Paper
1970s American Modern Abstract Prints
Lithograph
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Paper
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Paper
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1970s German Posters
Paper
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Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples
Laser
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Watercolor, Felt Pen
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Impressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Gouache
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Felt Pen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Gouache
1980s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Pen
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Laser
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Acrylic
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Laser
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Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist More Prints
Silk
1990s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Ink, Gouache
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Acrylic
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Watercolor
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Prints and Multiples
Laser
Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples
Laser
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples
Laser
20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1970s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
Leroy Neiman Olympics For Sale on 1stDibs
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LeRoy Neiman for sale on 1stDibs
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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