Plain-spoken, direct, earthy, reflective, humble, and proud, LeRoy Neiman led an enchanted life, if one with many ups and downs.  His memoir tells all, within the bounds of good taste.  Neiman recounts his artistic, professional, and romantic influences, the admiration he held for the men and women he immortalized on canvas and in sketches, and the endearing foibles of those he knew.  “I’m a storyteller,” Neiman wrote, “only I tell my stories in a riot of color.  Painters have always told stories – martyrdoms, murders, battles, saints, and sinners – and that’s still what I do.”

Neiman’s tribute to “the splendors of world-class golf, its premier players and courses” through vivid on-the-spot sketches, majestic panoramas, and commentary.  Neiman focuses not only on the post-War masters of the game but also the caddies who helped shave strokes off their rounds, the crowds who sought inspiration from the long, arcing drives, chip shots, and round-winning and heartbreaking putts that defined two generations of competitors and the lush, verdant landscapes they dominated.

Neiman’s notebook from his extensive visit to Brazil and Carnaval in the early 1980’s is reproduced in full color.

In 2001, Neiman rendered a series of charcoal and wash sketches that created a new iconography of Ernest L. Thayer classic 1888 poem, “Casey at the Bat.”  Neiman drew upon the countless hours he’d spent in ballparks across America studying the titans of swat – Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, Jose Canseco – and their powerful wrists and rippling forearms.  

Casey at the Bat was published in a hand-signed limited edition, bound in cowhide, the same materials as a baseball itself, and in a cloth bound edition.  Both feature an Introduction by Joe Torre, at the time the manager of the New York Yankees, who had many times witnessed the sunken silence of ballparks after a local hero proved his mortality.   

“For LeRoy Neiman no other animal can compare with the horse, “that most beautiful and noble creature” that artists through the ages have painted with awe and reverence. Now Neiman, America’s premier art of the sporting world, has gathered nearly nearly every one of his drawings, paintings, and sketches of horses and worldwide equestrian events in this imposing volume. The result is a Triple Crown winner.”

Neiman first visited Paris in the 1940s while in the U.S. Army, lived there in the early 1960s, and visited it repeatedly throughout his life, notably in 1991 and 1992, where he camped out at a table – sketchbook in hand – at Fouquet’s, the noted brasserie on the Champs-Élysées.  An American in Paris presents Neiman’s warm and wry comments and drawings and paintings of this “badge of café royalty, a regal wrapping around the corner of the Champs-Elysées and the Avenue George-V” in a lavishly scaled, oversized book

“LeRoy Neiman: Art & Life Style is a book for all seasons and for all tastes. A superlative selection of Neiman’s finest work is highlighted by the artist’s notes on the people, places and events he has painted- from chic society beauties, superstars and big business wheeler-dealers to Bowery rejects, poolroom hustlers and sidewalk hustlers. Neiman’s art transcends all class distinctions to capture the kaleidoscope social scene”. 

 – From the dust jacket 

“When LeRoy Neiman and Hugh Hefner met in the early 1950’s, while LeRoy was doing women’s high fashion drawings and Hef was a copywriter in the Chicago department store Carson Pirie Scott, neither could have predicted that a 12-inch woman called Femlin was waiting in the wings. But Femlin is mischievous. She’s spunky. And she knows how to strike while the iron is hot. Fifty years later, Femlin is still going strong and sassy. Neiman has drawn her for every issue of Playboy for the past half-century, showing her at play, at sport, and at her ease. Wearing her trademark heels, stockings and gloves – and not much else – Femlin has become a beloved icon of Playboy. . . and a celebrity in her own right. 

– From the dust jacket

A revelatory look at Neiman’s work, from his early drawings of jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Miles Davis to denizens of café society to political leaders and sports immortals Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mantle, and Tiger Woods.  The most complete look at Neiman’s work to date, LeRoy Neiman Five Decades showcases the artist’s mastery with pen, charcoal, and paint as he chronicled the rich, multifaceted spectacle of postwar America and Europe.  

An oversized softcover book of 29 Neiman posters, including those from an Ali-Frazier Fight, the 1975 World Series, and the poster promoting Ali-Foreman’s Rumble in the Jungle.  

Neiman turned his eye and hand to the African veldt and jungle in 1997, turning his attention and the skills and vision he had developed in boxing arenas, casinos, and four-star restaurants to some of the most majestic creatures on earth.  Using a brilliant palette that captured the heat and warm earth tones and lush vegetation of the wild, Neiman immerses the viewer in a forbidding, mesmerizing world.  

Neiman covered the two legendary bouts between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali, both before and after Ali’s conversion to Islam.  The days leading up to the first fight were thick with tension as the upstart Ali proclaimed that he would “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” and taunted and belittled Liston. A 7-1 underdog, Ali prevailed and then, in the rematch, stood towering over Liston during a first-round knockout.  

Neiman’s sketchbook shows both men as they trained and prepared for the fights, the enmity between them palpable in their expressions and body language.  The fights launched Ali to world fame, and his coverage of them made Neiman a household name. 

A beautifully illustrated artist’s edition of Melville’s classic with a preface by Jacques-Yves Cousteau.  

A tale of art world intrigue set in glittering Monte Carlo, diamond-head of the French Riviera, Neiman created a fictional narrative of an artist in pursuit of a felonious art dealer in Monte Carlo Chase.  This heavily illustrated tale takes the reader through the luxurious cabanas, palatial homes, and glittering restaurants and night clubs of the playground of international – and self-proclaimed – masters of the universe.  

Neiman’s serigraphs, etchings and lithographs up to 1980. Includes a preface by Alfred Frankenstein and an essay by F. Lanier Graham called “The Art of LeRoy Neiman: A Stylistic and Sociological Analysis.” 

The Prints of LeRoy Neiman 1980 – 1990 reproduces all of the prints in all of the editions that Neiman published from 1980 to 1990 in plates the artist reviewed and approved, including 97 serigraphs and ten etchings. The definitive reference for the artist’s print oeuvre of the decade. Along with a chronology of Neiman’s life and work there are two scholarly studies,“Prints of Power” by sociologist David Halle and New York Historical Society’s Louise Mirrer. and “Being There” by art historian, Lynn Thorpe McAllister.

The Prints of LeRoy Neiman 1991 – 2000 presents in true and brilliant color reproductions of the 82 serigraphs and 5 etchings that Neiman created following the publication of The Prints of LeRoy Neiman 1980 – 1990.  The Prints of LeRoy Neiman, 1991 – 2000 also features photographs of the artist with many of his well-known subjects and “Neimanland,” an essay by art critic and historian Jan Avgikos, of Columbia University, that examines Neiman’s remarkable career as a painter and exceptional popularity.  

“Although LeRoy Neiman calls his book Winners, he is quick to point out that he is presenting an egalitarian study of sports. For more than a quarter century, Neiman has worked as an artist on the sports scene, portraying losers as well as winners- the important thing was to capture players of the game and document their incredible quality of what Ernest Hemmingway referred to as “grace under pressure.””

– From the dust jacket