Bidspirit auction | LEROY NEIMAN ”GOLF CHAMPIONS” LITHOGRAPHIC

LEROY NEIMAN ”GOLF CHAMPIONS” LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT - Lithographic print on paper ”Golf Champions” by listed artist, LeRoy Neiman (NY, IL, MN, 1921 - 2012). Features golf champions Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer & Jack Nicklaus, as noted beneath the art. Art measures 20” h x 32.5” w x 25.5” x 38”. Artist bio: In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS.