SYLVIA SLEIGH Un œil viscéral / A Visceral Eye

Exposition – néo monographique / DOSSIER DE PRESSE / neo monograph – Exhibition PRESS KIT

Commissaire de l’exposition / Curator of the exhibition: Alexis Vaillant, responsable de la programmation au CAPC / Chief Curator at the CAPC

Galerie Ferrère, 2e étage / Ferrère Gallery, 2nd Floor capc musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux

16.05.2013 – 01.09.2013 COMMUNIQUé DE PRESSE / PRESSE RELEASE

SYLVIA SLEIGH SYLVIA SLEIGH Un œil viscéral A Visceral Eye

Un œil viscéral est la rétrospective la plus complète jamais réalisée A Visceral Eye is the most comprehensive retrospective to date de Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), peintre réaliste née au Pays de of Welsh-born realist painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010) who Galles, qui remporta un succès critique dans les années 1960 et gained critical success in the 1960s and ’70s as an important 70, figure reconnue comme étant à l’initiative de la scène artistique instigator of New York’s feminist art scene. Known for her explicit féministe new-yorkaise. Célèbre pour ses nus masculins explicites male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of qui citent et subvertissent la tradition historique du regard masculin male gaze onto female body, Sleigh’s portraits feature artists, posé sur le corps féminin, les portraits de Sleigh représentent des musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, artistes, musiciens et auteurs des deux genres, habillés et nus, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures. Exploring constituant un panthéon de figures culturelles emblématiques. contemporary portraiture as an intimate dialogue between artist Explorant le portrait contemporain comme un dialogue intime and sitter, Sleigh’s practice elevated her subjects, aiming to remove entre l’artiste et le modèle, la pratique de Sleigh déplace le sujet objectification from art. In these portraits, she combined bold ambitionnant de faire disparaître l’objectivation dans l’art. Dans sensuality with a personal feminism that placed her at the heart of ces portraits, elle combine une sensualité sans équivoque et un a discourse on power, representation, and gender. féminisme très personnel qui la placent au cœur d’un discours sur le pouvoir, la représentation et le genre. A Visceral Eye is the fourth step of Sylvia Sleigh’s exhibition. The CAPC shows a large selection of her works made by Giovanni Un œil viscéral est la quatrième étape, en Europe, de l’exposition Carmine, Mats Stjernstedt and Alexis Vaillant, curated by Alexis Sylvia Sleigh. Conçue par Alexis Vaillant au CAPC, l’exposition Vaillant at the CAPC, asking the question of the academicism of the présente une large sélection d’œuvres faite par Giovanni representation regarding the radicalism of the speech of the artist. Carmine, Mats Stjernstedt et Alexis Vaillant posant la question The exhibition is a joint production by the Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, de l’académisme de la représentation au regard du radicalisme du the Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, the Tate Liverpool, the CAPC musée discours de l’artiste. d’art contemporain in Bordeaux and the Centro Andaluz de Arte L’exposition est une coproduction du Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, de Contemporáneo in Seville. la Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, de la Tate Liverpool, du CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux et du Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Séville.

2 A PROPOS DE SYLVIA SLEIGH / ABOUT SYLVIA SLEIGH

SYLVIA SLEIGH SYLVIA SLEIGH Sylvia Sleigh est née au Pays de Galles en 1916. Après des études à Sylvia Sleigh was born in Wales in 1916. After studying at Brighton l’école d’art de Brighton, elle fait sa première exposition en 1953 à art school, she had her first exhibition in 1953 at the Kensington Art la Kensington Art Gallery. Gallery.

Elle s’installe à New York aux États-Unis en 1961, avec son mari, In 1961, with her husband Lawrence Alloway[1], who had just been Lawrence Alloway1, qui vient d’être nommé conservateur du musée appointed curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, she Solomon R. Guggenheim. Elle y passera le reste de sa vie. settled in the United States, in New York, where she spent the rest of her life. C’est à New York que Sylvia Sleigh devient une artiste de premier plan. Témoin de son époque, elle peint des portraits d’hommes et de It was in New York that Sylvia Sleigh became a noted artist. As femmes, des corps nus et habillés, en pied, en plan rapproché, seuls a witness to her day and age, she painted portraits of men and ou en groupe, dans un style unique méticuleux, aussi fascinant que women, naked and clothed, standing, close-up, alone or in groups, récalcitrant. in a unique and painstaking style, as fascinating as it is defiant.

Avec l’émergence de la deuxième vague du féminisme aux With the emergence of the second wave of feminism in the United Etats-Unis dans les années 60, Sylvia Sleigh devient une States in the 1960s, Sylvia Sleigh became an important figure in personnalité importante de la scène culturelle new-yorkaise. the New York cultural scene. She worked to have women artists Elle œuvre à la reconnaissance des femmes artistes et soutient recognized, and supported self-managed galleries and venues such des galeries et des lieux autogérés tels que A.I.R, première galerie as A.I.R., the first cooperative female gallery, andSOHO 20 Gallery. coopérative féministe ou SOHO20 Gallery. Sylvia Sleigh’s work is always being shown somewhere. Le travail de Sylvia Sleigh n’a jamais cessé d’être montré. En lien Connected with feminism and the figurative realism of the 1970s, avec le féminisme et le réalisme figuratif des années 70 en together with Alice Neels, Philip Pearlstein or Larry Rivers, it has compagnie d’Alice Neels, Philip Pearlstein ou Larry Rivers, also featured in major shows like WACK! Art and the feminist il appartient aussi à de grandes expositions telles que WACK! L’art movement, held at the MOCA in Los Angeles, and the MoMA in et le mouvement féministe, exposition du MOCA, Los Angeles, New York, in 2007 et au MoMA, New York en 2007. Sylvia Sleigh died in 2010 at the age of 94. Sylvia Sleigh disparaît 2010 à 94 ans. 1. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1989): Art critic who popularized the term Pop Art in the mid 50’s and defended artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg - through the exhibition Six Painters and the Object (1963) among others. 1. Lawrence Alloway (1926-1989) : Critique d’art qui popularise le terme de Pop Art au milieu des années 50 et défend des artistes comme Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg et Andy Warhol - à travers l'exposition Six Painters and the Object (1963) notamment.

3 BIOGRAPHIE

Née en 1916, Llandudno, Pays de Galles EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES 2004 Morte en 2010, New York, USA 2013 Sylvia Sleigh: New Work and Portraits of Sylvia Sleigh : Centro Andaluz de Arte Critics, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY Contemporáneo, Séville. EDUCATION 2001 Brighton School of Art, Brighton, Sussex, 2013 “An Unnerving Romanticism:” The Art Angleterre Sylvia Sleigh, Un œil viscéral : CAPC musée of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway, d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphie, PA PRIX ET DISTINCTIONS 2013 1999 Prix pour l’ensemble de sa carrière, Sylvia Sleigh : Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, Deven Women’s Caucus for Art, 2011 Angleterre Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Prix pour l’ensemble de sa carrière, College Art Association, 2008 2012 1995 Prix de la fondation Pollock-Krasner, 1985 Sylvia Sleigh : Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works, National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Suisse Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL Artists Fellowship, 1982 2012 1994 Sylvia Sleigh : Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, COLLECTIONS PUBLIQUES Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Stiebel Norvège National Portrait Gallery, Londres Modern, New York, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2011 1992 Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage: The Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings from the 1970s, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Hudson River at Fishkill, 1979-99, The Stiebel Modern, New York, NY The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Mills College, Oakland, CA 1990 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2010 Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Sylvia Sleigh: Working at Home, Freymond- Other Works, Milwaukee Art Museum, Washington, DC Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich, Suisse Milwaukee, WI; Ball State University Art Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2009 Gallery, Muncie, IN; Butler Institute of Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY American Art, Youngstown, OH The David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2007 1985 University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh: Drawings, SOHO20 Gallery, MO New York, NY 2006 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Invitation to a Voyage: The Hudson River at Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT Fishkill, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh: Nudes and Portraits, Zaks North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 2005 Gallery, Chicago, IL Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Group Portraits, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 1983 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, Sylvia Sleigh Paints Lawrence Alloway, NY G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY

4 1982 1976 1968 Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits at the New School, Sylvia Sleigh, Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, The New School Associates, New York, NY University, Columbus, OH New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, 1981 NY; Cortland College, State University of 1965 Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 210, University of New York, Cortland, NY Sylvia Sleigh, Byron Gallery, New York, NY Missouri, St. Louis, MO Sylvia Sleigh, MATRIX 23, Wadsworth 1963 1980 Atheneum, Hartford, CT Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, New Gallery, Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 609, Denver, CO Sylvia Sleigh, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Bennington College, Bennington, VT Sylvia Sleigh, Marianne Deson Gallery, IL Chicago, IL Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1962 Statues in the Crystal Palace Gardens: Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings 1970-79, Canton 1975 Art Institute, Canton, OH; Ball State Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, The Trafford Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings, The New School Gallery, Londres, Angleterre University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN; Hiestand Associates, New York, NY Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH 1953 Sylvia Sleigh: Recent Paintings, G.W. 1974 Sylvia Sleigh, Kensington Art Gallery, Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Nudes, A.I.R. Londres, Angleterre Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers: Gallery, New York, NY Paintings and Watercolors, SOHO 20 Sylvia Sleigh (Women Artists Series, Gallery, New York, NY Year 4), The Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass College, Rutgers University, 1979 New Brunswick, NJ Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Lowenstein Library Sylvia Sleigh, Fine Arts Center, University of Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 1978 Sylvia Sleigh, Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Housatonic Washington, DC Community College, Bridgeport, CT 1973 Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, 1977 NY Sylvia Sleigh: Exhibition of Paintings, 1972 Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Lerner- Terre Haute, IN; Dittmar Gallery, Misrachi Gallery, New York, NY Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers, Paul 1971 Klapper Library, Queens College, City Sylvia Sleigh: The Investiture of Charles, University, Flushing, NY Prince of Wales, 1969, Hemingway Galleries, New York, NY 1969 Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, New York, NY

5 BIOGRAPHY

Born 1916, Llandudno, Wales SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 Died 2010, New York, NY 2013 Sylvia Sleigh: New Work and Portraits of Sylvia Sleigh: Centro Andaluz de Arte Critics, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY EDUCATION Contemporáneo, Sevilla. Brighton School of Art, Brighton, Sussex, 2001 England 2013 “An Unnerving Romanticism:” The Art Sylvia Sleigh: CAPC musee d’art of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway, GRANTS AND AWARDS contemporian, Bordeaux, France Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s 2013 1999 Caucus for Art, 2011 Sylvia Sleigh: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, Deven Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime England Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Achievement, College Art Association, 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1985 2012 1995 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Sylvia Sleigh: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works, Artists Fellowship, 1982 Switzerland Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 1994 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Sylvia Sleigh: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Stiebel National Portrait Gallery, London Norway Modern, New York, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH 2011 1992 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage: Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings from the 1970s, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY The Hudson River at Fishkill, 1979-99, Stiebel Modern, New York, NY Mills College, Oakland, CA The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 1990 National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2010 Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage and Washington, DC Sylvia Sleigh: Working at Home, Freymond- Other Works, Milwaukee Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland Milwaukee, WI; Ball State University Art Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, Gallery, Muncie, IN; Butler Institute of 2009 American Art, Youngstown, OH NJ Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY The David and Alfred Smart Museum, 1985 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2007 Sylvia Sleigh: Drawings, SOHO 20 Gallery, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY New York, NY MO 2006 Invitation to a Voyage: The Hudson River at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, Fishkill, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., VA The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY New York, NY Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT Sylvia Sleigh: Nudes and Portraits, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of 2005 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Group Portraits, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 1983 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, Sylvia Sleigh Paints Lawrence Alloway, NY G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., York, NY

6 1982 Sylvia Sleigh, MATRIX 23, Wadsworth 1963 Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits at the New School, Atheneum, Hartford, CT Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, New Gallery, The New School Associates, New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Bennington College, Bennington, VT IL 1981 Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1962 Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 210, University of Statues in the Crystal Palace Gardens: Missouri, St. Louis, MO 1975 Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, The Trafford Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings, The New School Gallery, London, England 1980 Associates, New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 609, Denver, CO 1953 Sylvia Sleigh, Marianne Deson Gallery, 1974 Sylvia Sleigh, Kensington Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Nudes, A.I.R. London, England Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings 1970-79, Canton Gallery, New York, NY Art Institute, Canton, OH; Ball State Sylvia Sleigh (Women Artists Series, University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN; Hiestand Year 4), The Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Sylvia Sleigh: Recent Paintings, G.W. Brunswick, NJ Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, Fine Arts Center, University of Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers: Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Paintings and Watercolors, SOHO 20 Sylvia Sleigh, Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Gallery, New York, NY Washington, DC 1979 1973 Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Lowenstein Library Sylvia Sleigh, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY NY 1978 1972 Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Housatonic Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Lerner- Community College, Bridgeport, CT Misrachi Gallery, New York, NY Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY 1971 1977 Sylvia Sleigh: The Investiture of Charles, Sylvia Sleigh: Exhibition of Paintings, Prince of Wales, 1969, Hemingway Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Galleries, New York, NY Terre Haute, IN; Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1969 Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers, Paul Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, Klapper Library, Queens College, City New York, NY University, Flushing, NY 1968 1976 Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, Sylvia Sleigh, Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State New York, NY University, Columbus, OH 1965 Sylvia Sleigh, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, Sylvia Sleigh, Byron Gallery, New York, NY NY; Cortland College, State University of New York, Cortland, NY 7 PIèCES à CONVICTION / PIECES OF EVIDENCE

Frieze, n°153, Mars / March 2013

8 Frieze, n°153, Mars / March 2013 9 Kaléïdoscope, Issue 16, Fall 2012 10 Lettre de Sylvia Sleigh à Kevin Eckstrom, 1979 / Courrier de Sylvia Sleigh / Letter from Sylvia Sleigh, 1972 Letter from Sylvia Sleigh to Kevin Eckstrom, 1979

Communiqué de presse de la galerie Soho20, 1973 / Presse release of Soho20 Gallery, 1973

11 Projet d’invitation - Air Gallery, 1975 / Invitation - 1979 / Invitation, 1979 Invitation project, Air gallery, 1975

12 LISTE DES ŒUVRES PRéSENTéES / LIST OF ARTWORKS EXHIBITED

ENTRéE DE L’EXPOSITION / The Crystal Palace, Sydenham: The The Crystal Palace, Sydenham: Russia, 1960 ENTRANCE OF THE EXHIBITION Departure, 1957 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 50,8 x 40,6 cm Working at Home, 1969 50,8 x 60,9 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 142,2 x 81,3 cm Alloway The Rectory Terrace, Looking East, ca. Hauser & Wirth Collection, Suisse / 1952-1953 Switzerland The Crystal Palace, Sydenham: Venus in the Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Grass, 1957 22,8 x 29,2 cm SALLE 1 - Paysages / Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway ROOM 1 - Landscapes 50,8 x 60,9 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Lawrence at the Shore, 1952 Pett Rectory Back Door, 1953 Alloway Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 43,1 x 38,1 cm 41,9 x 31,1 cm The Crystal Palace, Sydenham: Paxton and Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Hercules, 1957 Alloway Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 40,6 x 61 cm SALLE 2 - Villes / ROOM 2 - Cities Surfside: Dick Hoyt’s Swimming Pool, 1963 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Alloway Bob Hock Standing, 1963-1966 45,7 x 50,8 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh The Crystal Palace, Sydenham: The Rape of 198,1 x 91,4 cm Alloway Apollo, ca. 1957-1958 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Pansy Violet, 1978 40,6 x 50,8 cm Lawrence at Carbondale, 1967 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper 15,2 x 12,7 cm Alloway 61 x 76,2 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Alloway Greenwich Palace from Observatory Hill, South London, 1950 Arakawa and Madeline Gins, 1971 The Rectory Garden, Pett, Sussex, 1949 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper 40,6 x 55,5 cm 121,9 x 203,2 cm 38,1 x 55,8 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Alloway Francine du Plessix Gray, 1962 The Willows, 1967 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Annunciation: Paul Rosano, 1975 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 55,8 x 50,8 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 121,9 x 182,8 cm Collection privée, Suisse / Private collection, 228,6 x 132 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Switzerland Collection Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer Alloway

13 Zinnias from my Garden, 1967 Stones from Southhold, Long Island May SALLE 3 - Hommes / ROOM 3 - Men Aquatec (acrylique) sur toile / Aquatec 18th, 1970 (acrylic) on canvas Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Valentin Tatransky Tondo, 1980 45,7 x 45,7 cm 12,7 x 17,8 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Collection privée, New York / Private Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Diamètre / Diameter 43,1 cm collection, New York Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Chelsea Garden, 1967 Stones from Southhold, Long Island 4, 1970 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper David Bourdon, 1969 144,8 x 127 cm 10,2 x 15,2 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Hauser & Wirth Collection, Suisse / Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 76,2 x 53,3 cm Switzerland Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Stones from Southhold, Long Island 5, 1970 Dans les vitrines / Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Joan of Arc with SS Michael and Margaret: In the showcases 12,7 x 15,2 cm Joan Watts, 1985 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Stones from Southhold, Long Island 1, 1970 Alloway 55,8 x 60,9 cm Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 16,5 x 12,7 cm Stones from Southhold, Long Island 6, 1970 Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Alloway 12,7 x 17,8 cm Philip Golub Clothed, 1971 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Stones & Shells Southhold, Long Island, Alloway 208,3 x 60,9 cm 1972 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Stones from Southhold, Long Island 7, 1970 Alloway 15,2 x 12,7 cm Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 10,2 x 12,7 cm Philip Golub Nude, 1972 Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Alloway 208,3 x 60,9 cm Stones from Southhold, Long Island 2, 1970 Collection privée / Private collection Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Stones from Southhold, Long Island 8, 1970 10,2 x 14 cm Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Lawrence Reclining, 1949 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 10,2 x 15,2 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 40,6 x 45,7 cm Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Stones from Southhold, Long Island 3, 1970 Alloway Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Stones from Southhold, Long Island 9, 1970 10,2 x 14 cm Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper Michael Greenwood Reclining, 1952 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 10,2 x 15,2 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 35,5 x 61 cm Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

14 Paul Rosano with His Guitar, 1973 SALLE 4 – Nus / ROOM 4 - Nudes SALLE 5 - Femmes / ROOM 5 - Women Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 142,2 x 106,6 cm Demonstration Nude: Elaine Dufour, 1979 Diana Kurz, 1978 Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Alloway 60,9 x 50,8 cm 91 x 61 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Still Life with Cupid in our Dining Room, Alloway Alloway Pett, ca. 1952 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Eleonor Antin, 1968 Enid Irving at Hammersmith, 1959 70,4 x 55,8 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur carton entoilé / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 114,3 x 152,4 cm board Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 61 x 50,8 cm Alloway Hauser & Wirth Collection, Suisse / The Avocado (Lawrence and Sylvia with Switzerland Arthur the Avocado), 1966 Simona Morini and Fred Tuten, 1966 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Marianne Benedikt, 1970 228,6 x 76,2 cm 43,1 x 81,2 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Collection privée, New York / Private Collection privée / Private collection 101,6 x 152,4 cm collection, New York Collection privée / Private collection Max Warsh Seated nude, 1998-2006 Black Model at Hammersmith Art School, Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Betty Parsons, 1963 1958 132,1 x 124,2 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur carton entoilé / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh 60,9 x 76,2 cm board Alloway Susan & Rick Rieser, Palm Beach, Florida 50,8 x 40,6 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Legend: Elaine Shipman, 1974 Robert Lucy Tondo, 1997-1999 Alloway Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 142,2 x 132,1 cm Diamètre / Diameter 43,1 cm Dans les vitrines / Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh In the Showcases Alloway Alloway

Pansy Orange, 1978 Felicity Rainnie Reclining, 1972 Three Women (for cover of Time Magazine), Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 1972 15,2 x 12,7 cm 107,3 x 152,4 cm Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Collection privée, New York / Private 60,5 x 51,3 cm Alloway collection, New York Hauser & Wirth Collection, Suisse / Switzerland Pansy White & Pansy, 1978 Self-Portrait, Cropped, 107 Blackheath Park: Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas The Red Dress, ca. 1952 Mel Pekarsky Tondo, 1977 15,2 x 12,7 cm Huile sur carton entoilé / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh board Diamètre / Diameter 43,1 cm Alloway 44,4 x 35,5 cm Marina Schiptjenko Collection Collection Erling Bonnevie Hjort, Oslo

15 SALLE 6 - Groupes / ROOM 6 - Groups

Northwestern University Group, 1967 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 152,4 x 213,3 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

Paul Rosano Reclining, 1974 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 137,2 x 198,1 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

A.I.R. Group Portrait, 1977-1978 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 193 x 208,2 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

Self-Portrait at Belsize Square, 1941 Huile sur carton entoilé / Oil on canvas board 45 x 33,6 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

Napi Browne at Oxford Alehouse, New Haven, 1977-1979 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 116,8 x 175,3 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

16 VISUELS DISPONIBLES POUR LA PRESSE / PICTURES AVAILABLE FOR PRESS

Sylvia Sleigh Surfside: Dick Hoyt's Swimming Pool, 1963 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 45,7 x 50,8 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

Sylvia Sleigh Annunciation: Paul Rosano, 1975 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 228,6 x 132 cm Sylvia Sleigh Collection Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer Arakawa and Madeline Gins, 1971 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 121,9 x 203,2 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

17 Sylvia Sleigh Stones from Southhold, Long Island 1, 1970 Aquarelle sur papier / Watercolor on paper 16,5 x 12,7 cm Sylvia Sleigh Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Pansy White & Pansy, 1978 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 15,2 x 12,7 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway

Sylvia Sleigh Felicity Rainnie Reclining, 1972 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 107,3 x 152,4 cm Collection privée, New York / Private collection, New York

18 Sylvia Sleigh Simona Morini and Fred Tuten, 1966 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 43,1 x 81,2 cm Collection privée / Private collection

Sylvia Sleigh Sylvia Sleigh Mel Pekarsky Tondo, 1977 Three Women (for cover of Time Magazine), 1972 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Diamètre / Diameter 43,1 cm 60,5 x 51,3 cm Marina Schiptjenko Collection Hauser & Wirth Collection, Suisse / Switzerland

19 Sylvia Sleigh Northwestern University Group, 1967 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 152,4 x 213,3 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Sylvia Sleigh Self-Portrait, Cropped, 107 Blackheath Park: The Red Dress, ca. 1952 Huile sur carton entoilé / Oil on canvas board 44,4 x 35,5 cm Collection Erling Bonnevie Hjort, Oslo

Sylvia Sleigh Sylvia Sleigh Paul Rosano Reclining, 1974 A.I.R. Group Portrait, 1977-1978 Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas 137,2 x 198,1 cm 193 x 208,2 cm Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Courtesy The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh Alloway 20 infos pratiques / practical information

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