Lot #451: LEROY NEIMAN - Olympic Gymnast - Original color silkscreen

 

Artist: LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012).
Title: "Olympic Gymnast".
Medium: Original color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1976.
Dimensions: Overall size: 23 3/4 x 41 in. (603 x 1041 mm). Image size: 18 x 36 in. (457 x 914 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right; annotated 'A.P.' lower left. Edition of 10 AP (the regular edition was 300). Cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Very good condition; handling dimples in the margins. Comment(s): Another impression of this image was offered at $2,875 online at 1stdibs in August of 2016. By repute, the image is of Olga Korbut at the Montreal Summer Olympics. Neiman, born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events. Image copyright © LeRoy Neiman Foundation. [27750-6-800]