Artist: LeRoy Neiman
Title: Mark Spitz With Medals (from The Munich Suite, 1972)
Year created: 1972
Medium: Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Serigraph on Paper
Signed by the artist
Edition: AP (Artist's Proof)
Height (inches): 10.25 (image size)
Width (inches): 15 (image size)
Frame size: 20" x 23.5"
This piece is unframed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece: This highly collectible early Neiman work celebrates Mark Spitz' 1972 U.S. Olympic Swimming Gold Medal victories! This very classic and unique Neiman depicts all 7 Mark Spitz World Record Olympic Gold Medal wins. In the serigraph, Neiman has written the names of each competition, along with the date of each record-breaking win by Spitz— next to portraits of Spitz at each win, holding each of his 7 gold medals!:
"400 Meter Free Style relay World record Anchor August 28 '72", "400 meter Medley relay world record Sept. 4 72", "800 Meter Freestyle relay anchor leg world record Aug. 31, '72", "Butterfly world record Aug 31, '72", "Free style world record Aug 29 '72", "200 meter Butterfly World Record Aug 28, '72", "Free Style World Record Sept. 3 '72".
Neiman has also written the words "Schwimmhalle Olympiapark" and "XX Olympiade Munchen '72"— all in Neiman's very identifiable script!
From LeRoy Neiman's "The Munich Suite, 1972", the artwork is numbered AP (Artist's Proof); the full limited edition of this work is only 250 pieces. With an image size of 10 1/4" in height x 15" in width, this iconic Neiman comes custom framed and ready for display in a custom black lacquered frame, with exquisite archival double mat, accentuating and highlighting the artwork. The framed size is 20” x 23.5”.
Mark Spitz won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, setting new world records in all seven events in which he competed in 1972, an achievement that still stands. Since the year 1900, no other swimmer has gained so great a percentage of all the medals awarded for Olympic events held in a single Games. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds plus a silver and a bronze, five Pan American golds, 31 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, and eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles. During those years, he set 35 world records. With his seven gold medal performance at Munich in 1972, he was the most decorated athlete in the history of the Olympic Games until Michael Phelp's eight gold medal performance at Beijing 36 years later in 2008. He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971 and 1972 by Swimming World Magazine, and was the third athlete in history to win nine Olympic gold medals.
Artist bio: Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, LeRoy Neiman (June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012) studied briefly in St. Paul before moving to Chicago to study at the School of Art Institute of Chicago where he then taught for 10 years before moving to New York City in 1962. Leroy Neiman is possibly the most popular painter and print maker in America, one of the few artists of the 20th century whose name has become a household word in millions of homes, 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; it stands alone, without any real comparison. It is an art which became controversial because Neiman broke the barriers of many of the most hallowed assumptions of modern art history and contemporary criticism. LeRoy Neiman's style explodes with the dramatic intensity of Abstract Expressionist brush strokes, strokes that pick out action that is strikingly accurate.
Since 1970 LeRoy Neiman published hundreds of limited edition serigraphs which have become as much sought after as the prints of Miro, Chagall and Picasso. Having exhibited worldwide, from Moscow to Tokyo to Caracas, honored with many awards for his art, and published many books, Neiman is an icon of contemporary art. His work is in the permanent collections of countless 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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