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Artist: Leroy Neiman
Title: American Gold
Year created: 1984
Medium: Hand-Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Serigraph on Paper
Signed by the artist
Edition: 575/600
Height (inches): 34- 1/8
Width (inches): 48
This piece is unframed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece: Neiman imaginatively created American Gold, a celebratory vision of the USA's Olympic Gold Medal winners from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games, in 1984. Vibrantly colored, American Gold is iconic Neiman, capturing the excitement of the Olympic Games in which the USA Team won 83 Gold Medals!
Juxtaposed with the Olympic flag and rows of international flags are portraits of USA Gold Medalists, including: Greg Louganis (winning 2 Gold for Diving); Steve Hegg (Gold for Track Cycling), Tiffany Cohen (2 Gold for Swimming, 400-meter & 800-meter freestyle), Edward Moses (Gold for 400-meter hurdles), Mark Breland (Gold for Welterweight Boxing), Joan Benoit (Gold for Marathon Running), Evelyn Ashford (2 Gold, for 100-meter Dash & 4 x 100-meter Relay), Mitch Gaylord (who led the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's gymnastics team and was the first American gymnast to score a perfect 10.00 in the Olympics); Mary Lou Retton (Gold Medalist for Women's Gymnastics); and Olympic star Carl Lewis, sprinter & long jumper (winning 4 Gold Medals— the-100 meter, 200-meter, 4 x 100-meter Relay, and the Long Jump.)
With an impressive size of 34-1/8" in height x 48" in width, American Gold is hand-signed by the artist and numbered 575 from the Limited Edition of 600. American Gold is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Artist bio: Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, LeRoy Neiman (June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012) studied briefly in St. Paul before moving to Chicago to study at the School of Art Institute of Chicago where he then taught for 10 years before moving to New York City in 1962. Leroy Neiman is possibly the most popular painter and print maker in America, one of the few artists of the 20th century whose name has become a household word in millions of homes, nationally and internationally.
Best known for his brilliantly colored, stunningly energetic images of the world of sports, exclusive leisure activities, and the world of entertainment, LeRoy Neiman's art is unique; it stands alone, without any real comparison. It is an art which became controversial because Neiman broke the barriers of many of the most hallowed assumptions of modern art history and contemporary criticism. LeRoy Neiman's style explodes with the dramatic intensity of Abstract Expressionist brush strokes, strokes that pick out action that is strikingly accurate.
Since 1970 LeRoy Neiman published hundreds of limited edition serigraphs which have become as much sought after as the prints of Miro, Chagall and Picasso. Having exhibited worldwide, from Moscow to Tokyo to Caracas, honored with many awards for his art, and published many books, Neiman is an icon of contemporary art. His work is in the permanent collections of countless museums including the Whitney Museum in NYC, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, the Hermitage in Leningrad, and the Art Institute of Chicago.