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ALFRED LESLIE Untitled (from Permanently).
Color screenprint, 1961. 447x367 mm; 17 5/8x14 1/2 inches, full margins. The deluxe edition of 30, aside from the regular edition of 200. Signed, dated, numbered 17/30 and inscribed "Special Edition" in pencil, lower margin. Published by Tiber Press, New York. A superb impression with strong colors.
Already an active filmmaker by the time he began painting in the late 1940s, Alfred Leslie (born 1927) studied briefly at the Art Students League and then New York University as a GI Bill student, along with William Baziotes and Hale Woodruff. During the late 1940s he met Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and became a regular at the Cedar Bar in downtown New York and Studio 35, both significant Abstract Expressionist havens. In 1957, Leslie melded his filmmaking and painting interests with Pull My Daisy, a movie he shot with photographer Robert Frank that was narrated by Jack Kerouac and was shown at the MOMA in 1959 (and included several of Leslie's paintings).
