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Autumn Art + Design

Tue, Sep 30, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Autumn Art + Design auction. Highlights include paintings by Harold Town, David T. Grafton, Richard Allen George, and Walter Louis Jones, sculptures by Isidore Grossman, a Don Herron Tubshots photograph, an Alice Ballard Munn whiteware vase, a set of Milo Baughman dining chairs, and other designer lighting, furniture, ceramics, Modern and traditional art, glass, photography, and more.
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Lot 5

Leonardo Nierman 1960 “La Ciudad en la Nieve” Oil on Board Painting

Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Starting Bid
$400

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1960 oil on board painting by Leonardo Nierman (Mexican; 1932-2023). Titled La Ciudad en la Nieve (City in the Snow). Signed and dated to the lower right.

 

Born in Mexico City to Eastern European immigrants, Nierman, whose full name is Leonardo Nierman Mendeljis, originally wanted to be a violinist but instead studied mathematics and physics at the National University of Mexico. He began his painting career by painting murals and went on receive numerous awards and accolades, including the Palme D'Or des Beaux Arts of Monaco in 1969 and being named a lifetime member of the Royal Society of the Arts in London. Nierman's works have been exhibited worldwide including at Mexico City's Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as many others.

 

Measurements: 28.5” W x 21” H x 1” D (frame); 22.5” W x 15.25” H (sight).

 

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Some craquelure present. Two chips near the bottom right corner of the board.  

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