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This note from LeRoy Neiman relays a personal fantasy the artist entertained about French impressionist Claude Monet. Within the document, Neiman details finding a Monet-esque figure in Paris, incorporating this character into his work. The…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman details his personal relationship with the Metropolitan (Met) Opera House at Lincoln Center. The artist moved to New York, specifically to the Upper West Side, in the 1963, three years before Wallace Harrison's design was…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides background for the artist's print of Abraham Lincoln. The record reveals his childhood interest in the former president as well as his later fascination with the figure's cultural capital, facial hair, and…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdotal account of the artist's reference to Pope John Paul II. Neiman spotted the Pope after returning to New York from a film shoot in the Riviera in 1981. Internalizing this encounter, the artist included…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides the history of the artist's painting of Ricardo's Bar in Chicago, through personal anecdote. The record is not only significant because it elucidates the piece's biography but also because the document provides a…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief history of the artist’s final portrait of his mother, Lydia Hoelscher. The work was a sketch, dated 1980. Although the record is a singular account, it exhibits rhetorical overlap with other notes the…

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A note from LeRoy Neiman on artistic reference, specifically Italian painter and printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; a study featuring a baseball player is on reverse.

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a list of artistic references, particularly work from artist Francisco Goya; a preponderance of the pieces cited depict bullfighting. Neiman made a collection of works engaging bullfighting and bull dodging…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman concerns Thomas Rowlandson's A Gaming Table at Devonshire House. The pen and ink drawing with watercolor features a selection of British aristocrats gathered around a gambling table. (Working and living on the Upper West…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a comment on artists Thomas Rowlandson and Willam Hogarth. Despite the brevity of the statement, Neiman seem to be drawing comparison between the two artists, hitting on a kinship in aesthetic and tone. At the…
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