Judged a book by the cover today and scored this at an estate sale. Just look at that racing boat cut through the heavy seas… too cool! And the professional framing has got to be worth $200 all on it’s own.Turns out this artist is a somebody: LeRoy Neiman.
Neiman was famous for this kind of vibrant, energetic brushwork depicting sports or action scenes. This one in particular features the famous 1964 America’s Cup champion yacht “Constellation”. His prints are widely collected and many of these were produced in large runs. Not exactly a cardboard Basquiat, but still an absolute score IMO.
His best-known works are sports scenes, a reflection, he believes, of the fact that sports are universally a dominant force. He was the official artist for ABC-TV at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976, and at the Winter Olympics of 1980. Neiman’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the Hermitage in Leningrad. Some people will pronouce his name wrong and spell it Nieman, but we know who they are talking about