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Mar 29, 2024 · How is Alfred Leslie’s work viewed within the broader context of American art history? Alfred Leslie’s work is regarded as an important bridge in American art history, connecting the abstract expressionism of the post-World War II era with the later movements towards realism and narrative art.
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Alfred Leslie (October 29, 1927 – January 27, 2023) was an American painter and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.
May 10, 2017 · Anyone who visited the Bruce Silverstein booth at Frieze New York 2017 was offered a rare treat: a selection of realistic paintings by Alfred Leslie spanning from the late 1960s, when he first changed his focus to figuration, to today.
Jan 30, 2023 · Alfred Leslie, whose monumental, planar grisaille portraits of the 1960s at once rejected abstraction and the romanticization of the figure, died January 27 in Brooklyn of complications related to Covid-19.
In the 1950s Leslie explored abstract expressionism and--having captured the attention of critic Clement Greenberg, who had included him in his New Talent exhibition at the Kootz Gallery (1949)--rapidly earned a place among the best of the second generation abstract expressionist painters.
Alfred Leslie (October 29, 1927 – January 27, 2023) was an American painter and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.
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Oct 1, 2018 · On canvas, Mr. Leslie’s most famous artistic move was to go against the grain: In the 1960s, when Pop Art, abstraction and Conceptualism had the art world’s attention, he committed to his own ...
