Artist: LeRoy Neiman
Title: Boxing at the Rainbow Room
Year created: c. 1973
Medium: Original Sketch. Graphite on LeRoy Nieman’s sketch pad
Edition: Original Unique Artwork
Height (inches): 21
Width (inches): 24
Depth (inches): 1-3/4
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Description of piece:
Collect this one-of-a-kind, original artwork by renowned artist LeRoy Neiman!
LeRoy Neiman worked with pen and ink, graphite pencil, felt-tip markers, watercolours, and enamel paint. This very special original artwork was created by Neiman using graphite pencil, directly in his own sketch book. The work demonstrates Neiman’s raw talent— a portraiture with minimalistic line and tone, yet instilled with movement and energy.
Many of Leroy Neiman’s most iconic works feature boxers and boxing as their subject matter. This intimate sketch of boxers training is from Neiman’s own personal sketch book. It has been signed by the artist, lower right, in graphite pencil.
The work comes in its original, vintage custom deep frame of dark wood enhanced with carved detailing and golden highlights, with two layers of velvet matting perfectly offset with a fillet of gold wood. Framed size measures 21” in height x 24” width x 1-3/4” depth. The visible area of the artwork measures approximately 5” height x 8” width.
LeRoy Neiman’s Boxing at the Rainbow Room is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Artist bio:
LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) studied in Chicago at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, where he then taught for 10 years before moving to New York City in 1962. Renowned for his painting and printmaking, Neiman is one of the few artists of the 20th century whose work is known by millions, both 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, and his work is without any real comparison in the art world. Neiman broke the barriers of many of the most hallowed assumptions of modern art history and contemporary criticism, his style exploding with the dramatic intensity of Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes, strokes that pick out action: whether it is the action of sports, the action of a nightclub, casino or yacht race, or capturing the inimitable majesty of nature.
LeRoy Neiman published hundreds of limited edition serigraphs which have become as much sought after as the prints of Miro, Chagall, and Picasso. Exhibited worldwide, from Moscow to Tokyo to Caracas, and honored with many awards for his art, Neiman is an icon of contemporary art. His work is held in the permanent collections of innumerable 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.
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