Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his start, an exhibition showcasing the varied vary of Saul Leiter’s profession will probably be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from December 2, 2023, via February 10, 2024. Saul Leiter: Centennial will function greater than 40 images, work, and painted images, lots of which have by no means been on public view within the U.S. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Basis, will coincide with a brand new e book, Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, to be revealed by Thames & Hudson in November. A gap reception will probably be held on Saturday, December 2, from 3 to five p.m.
Saul Leiter, who was born on December 3, 1923, photographed and painted practically day by day for over 60 years. He made an unlimited and distinctive contribution to pictures throughout a extremely prolific interval in New York Metropolis within the Fifties as an early pioneer of colour. His abstracted varieties and radically revolutionary compositions have a painterly high quality that stands out from the work of his New York College contemporaries. Typically, he discovered inspiration inside a couple of blocks of his condo in decrease Manhattan, looking for magnificence within the bizarre, and capturing intimate moments, each indoors and on the streets. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery will survey his black-and-white in addition to his colour images together with portraiture and cityscapes from the Nineteen Forties-Nineteen Sixties, his work (on which he labored till the top of his life) together with summary watercolors and painted images, and his style pictures from Harper’s Bazaar circa 1960.
Anne Morin, who curated the current exhibition on Saul Leiter at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France, and is the director of diChroma pictures in Madrid, famous: “Work, images, colour, black and white, road pictures, style pictures… Approaching the work of Saul Leiter is advanced. Due to the cross-disciplinary dimension of his work, the artist/photographer occupies a really particular place within the historical past of pictures. As a collector of minute fragments of the world round him, Leiter wove a physique of labor of extraordinary density. Often called one of many nice masters of mid-century colour pictures, his physique of labor extends far past this territory.”
ABOUT SAUL LEITER
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh, the son of a rabbi who was a distinguished Talmudic scholar. In 1946, he moved to New York Metropolis to pursue his portray. Shortly after his arrival in New York he met the Summary Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with pictures. Leiter’s friendship with Pousette-Dart, and shortly after with W. Eugene Smith, and the pictures exhibitions he noticed in New York, significantly Henri Cartier-Bresson on the Museum of Trendy Artwork in 1947, impressed his rising curiosity in pictures.
Edward Steichen included Leiter’s black-and-white images within the exhibition At all times the Younger Strangers on the Museum of Trendy Artwork in 1953. Within the late Fifties the artwork director Henry Wolf revealed Leiter’s colour style work in Esquire and later in Harper’s Bazaar. Leiter continued to work as a style photographer for the following 20 years and was revealed in Present, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, and Nova.
Within the early Eighties Leiter was confronted with monetary difficulties that compelled the closure of his Fifth Avenue industrial studio. For the following 20 years he lived and labored virtually in obscurity. In 2006, with the assistance of author/curator Martin Harrison and Howard Greenberg Gallery, the groundbreaking monograph Saul Leiter: Early Colour was revealed by Steidl in Germany. The “little” e book grew to become an in a single day sensation with worldwide distribution and firmly established Leiter as an early pioneer within the historical past of colour pictures. In 2006, the Milwaukee Museum of Artwork held the primary U.S. museum present of Leiter’s images.
Leiter’s work has been prominently featured in solo museum and gallery exhibits within the U.S. and Europe. His work is within the collections of the Museum of Nice Arts, Houston; the Artwork Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Artwork; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Nationwide Gallery of Australia; the Whitney Museum of American Artwork; the Milwaukee Artwork Museum; and the Yale College Artwork Gallery, amongst others.
ABOUT THE SAUL LEITER FOUNDATION
The Saul Leiter Basis, based in 2014, is devoted to preserving Leiter’s artwork and legacy. Directed by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo, the muse maintains Leiter’s huge archive and organizes academic applications, exhibitions, and books. Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective presents iconic Leiter works in addition to discoveries made within the 10 years for the reason that artist handed away. The SLF is working towards finishing a list raisonné to be made obtainable for examine by college students, curators, writers, and artwork professionals. For extra data, go to saulleiterfoundation.org.
Saul Leiter : Centennial
December 2, 2023 – February 10, 2024
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Road, eighth Ground
New York, NY 10022
www.howardgreenberg.com