Alfred Leslie (b. 1927)
Property of a Private West Coast Collector
Alfred Leslie (b. 1927)

No. 66

Details
Alfred Leslie (b. 1927)
No. 66
signed, numbered and dated '#66 Alfred Leslie- 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
72 x 84 3/8 in. (182.8 x 214.3 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Collection of Steve Martin, Beverly Hills
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Lever Collection, Brookville
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Lot Essay

"Leslie's work has an indisputable signature: the architecture, the wielding of the loaded brush, and the consistently present double vertical bands. Whether it is a large oil on canvas or a miniature collage, his work is immediately identifiable. His small works have great scale and his large works project an even grander sense of scale. This combined with Leslie's color sense creates a body of work that epitomizes the power and dynamic of postwar American abstract painting."
A. Stone quoted in Alfred Leslie: Expressing the Zeitgeist , exh. cat., Allan Stone Gallery, 2004, p. 4.

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