Here, his devotion to color and form took on a baroque sensuousness that has something in common with the erotic energy of turn-of-the-century Vienna. He created hundreds of these works, combining two media that were traditionally kept scrupulously apart. His heroes were the Impressionists-devotees of color and light.įrom the late sixties through the early nineties, Leiter adopted the practice of painting over his own photographs of nude figures. He declined to work on the giant canvases of his contemporaries, much preferring the pages of notebooks and the covers of old books. Leiter also painted-abstract planes of color kissing at unruly horizons. Like other New York School photographers of the fifties and early sixties, Leiter was captivated by what the curator Jane Livingston called “the fleeting and the candid,” but he infused those qualities with a lyricism and a delicacy that were quite his own.
Saul Leiter, an unassuming but ferociously single-minded artist, delighted in photographing the streets of New York, focussing above all on the rounded, the sensuous, and the colorful. The following text is adapted from the author's book “ Painted Nudes,” a collection of Saul Leiter’s work which_ is out this month from Sylph Editions._ With In My Room, Leiter ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery.Photograph by Saul Leiter / Courtesy the Saul Leiter Foundation and Sylph Editions Leiter preferred solitude in life, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. The prolific Leiter, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now we are granted a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. But never realized the project in his lifetime.
In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal the unique collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. About In My Roomįed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. PayPal accepted, any questions get in touch.
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