LEROY NEIMAN, WHOSE brilliantly colored, impressionistic sketches of sporting events and the international high life made him one of the most popular artists in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 91.
Mr. Neiman died of natural causes, according to his publicist.
Mr. Neiman’s kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
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