The Lady's Flowers
Alfred Leslie American
Not on view
Alfred Leslie was brought to the attention of kingmaker critic Clement Greenberg by Elaine de Kooning. John Bernard Meyers gave him his first solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1952. His intuitive, unpolished and aggressive style qualified him as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, and his paintings were soon admired by emerging artists such as Frank Stella. Like most artists of the New York School, Leslie chose his titles after his pictures were finished. The Lady’s Flowers refers to a 1943 novel by Jean Genet, Notre-Dame des Fleurs, in which an imprisoned thief conjures in a dream an imaginary, improbable, but saintly lady.
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