#71 • Leroy Neiman "Celebrity Night at Spago" Serigraph

Part of Multi-Estate Auction at The Gallery (timed auction by Wardlow Auctions)

High bid $700.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

"Celebrity Night at Spago" limited edition serigraph by world renowned artist Leroy Neiman. The piece is hand signed by the artist in the lower right corner, and numbered 571/600 in the lower left. Framed size: 51.5"w x 38.5"h Exposed Area of Art size: 39.5"w x 26.5"h Neiman draws inspiration from the energy and action of the world around him, so when he had the opportunity to join Hollywood’s elite at Spago for the exclusive Academy Award's after party he could hardly refuse. Most of the nominees were there, and along with those people, the serigraph also depicts several other Academy Award winners who have attended the party over the years. The piece allows us to have a look into a fun evening with some of Hollywood’s most talented entertainers. Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Sean Connery, George Burns, Wolfgang Puck, Morgan Feeman and Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Whoopi Goldberg are just a few of the celebrities depicted in this lovely piece. Following his return from the Army in 1946, Neiman studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art, then at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago on the G.I. Bill. Beginning in 1960, he traveled the world observing and painting leisure life, social activities and athletic competitions including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, championship boxing, PGA and The Masters golf tournament, The Ryder Cup, the World Equestrian Games, Wimbledon and other Grand Slam competitions, as well as night life, entertainment, jazz and the world of casino gambling. Neiman worked in oil, enamel, watercolor, pencil drawings, pastels, serigraphy and some lithographs and etching. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, Wadham College at Oxford and in museums and art galleries the world over, as well as in private and corporate collections.