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拍品 7
LeRoy Neiman (1926-2012)
Auction at Sotheby's
已结束2016年3月23日
成交价
USD 161,000
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专家说明
Auction at Sotheby's depicts the thrill and excitement of an auction in progress. Painted in the riot of colors characteristic of LeRoy Neiman’s unique style, the present work depicts Sotheby's saleroom in London on April 21, 1971. The auction featured works by Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Gustave Moreau. Neiman has paid homage to his artistic predecessors by depicting their works in paper collage, so as to faithfully render them. He does so, however, in monochrome, highlighting his own artistic merit through his bold palette. To commemorate the sale, the artist inscribed the hammer prices from the auction on the verso.
Neiman’s vigorously painted and brilliantly colored works are a unique fusion of Illustration and Abstract Expressionism. His dynamic depictions of athletes and titans of entertainment have wide appeal and led him to become one of America’s most popular artists. In an interview with the Associated Press in 2008, Neiman stated, “I’ve zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence...Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.”
The present work was published in the January 1972 issue of Playboy as part of Neiman's Man at His Leisure column. Neiman met Hugh Hefner in 1954 when he was a fashion illustrator for the Caron Pirie Scott department store chain, where Hefner was a writer. Soon after, Hefner hired Neiman as Playboy‘s first artist-in-residence. Neiman started Man at His Leisure in 1958. The column, for which he also provided the text, ran for fifteen years and featured activities associated with the American Dream: sporting games and social events, many of them at the world’s most glamorous locations. Neiman noted, “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.”(as quoted in, V.I.P Magazine, July 1962) Through his paintings, such as the present work, Neiman was able to bring this joie de vivre to the country.
Neiman’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota and The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia, among other public and private collections worldwide.
Neiman’s vigorously painted and brilliantly colored works are a unique fusion of Illustration and Abstract Expressionism. His dynamic depictions of athletes and titans of entertainment have wide appeal and led him to become one of America’s most popular artists. In an interview with the Associated Press in 2008, Neiman stated, “I’ve zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence...Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.”
The present work was published in the January 1972 issue of Playboy as part of Neiman's Man at His Leisure column. Neiman met Hugh Hefner in 1954 when he was a fashion illustrator for the Caron Pirie Scott department store chain, where Hefner was a writer. Soon after, Hefner hired Neiman as Playboy‘s first artist-in-residence. Neiman started Man at His Leisure in 1958. The column, for which he also provided the text, ran for fifteen years and featured activities associated with the American Dream: sporting games and social events, many of them at the world’s most glamorous locations. Neiman noted, “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.”(as quoted in, V.I.P Magazine, July 1962) Through his paintings, such as the present work, Neiman was able to bring this joie de vivre to the country.
Neiman’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota and The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia, among other public and private collections worldwide.