Nov 26, 2024 - Sale 2688

Sale 2688 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALFRED LESLIE (1927 - 2023)
Intersection on Belmont Ave, Youngstown, Ohio.

Watercolor on wove paper, 1983. 460x610 mm; 18⅛x24 inches. Signed, titled and dated in felt-tip pen, frame back. From 100 Views Along the Road.

Provenance
Richard Bellamy (artist's dealer), New York.
Acquired from the above by current owner, Connecticut.

Published
A. Leslie, 100 Views Along the Road: Watercolors by Alfred Leslie, 1988, Timken Publishers, New York, number 89 (illustrated).

Additional Details

The current watercolor was painted during Alfred Leslie's later career, after he reinvented himself from an Abstract Expressionist into one of the leading figurative painters of his generation. The series 100 Views Along the Road comprised of 100 black and white watercolors of scenes from Leslie's road trips during the late 1970s and early 1980s.