Saul Leiter

American | 1923 - 2013

Saul Leiter was an American photographer who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Foam Museum in Amsterdam. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art have featured Saul Leiter's work in the past.Saul Leiter's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 75 USD to 26,801 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 26,801 USD for Snow, sold at Phillips London in 2021. Saul Leiter has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Guardian in February 2025. The artist died in 2013.

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NUDE ,1955

By Saul Leiter

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Taxi ,1957

By Saul Leiter

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Foot on the El

By Saul Leiter

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'PHONE CALL'

By Saul Leiter

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NUDE ,1955

By Saul Leiter

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Paris, 1959 ,1959

By Saul Leiter

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Selected Images (2 Painted Photographs)

By Saul Leiter

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Lanesville (nude in chair) - Saul Leiter

Lanesville (nude in chair) ,1958

By Saul Leiter

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Current Exhibitions

How Wondrous the Other Through the Artist鈥檚 Glance

Gallery Fifty One

Antwerp | Belgium

Feb 22,2025 - May 10,2025

Past Exhibitions

Surprises Unknown: The Art Of The Wrapping

Lehman College Art Gallery

Bronx | New York | USA

Feb 08,2025 - May 03,2025

Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World

Foam Museum

Amsterdam | Netherlands

Jan 24,2025 - Apr 20,2025

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Articles

The Guardian 12/02/2025

Astounding shots of a wounded civil war major and a flogged Black man sit amid amateur snaps and propaganda in Amsterdam鈥檚 Rijksmuseum 鈥� showcasing the nation鈥檚 unrivalled mastery of the camera.

Aesthetica 04/02/2025

Saul Leiter (1923鈥�2013) is one of the most celebrated pioneers of colour photography. He is the subject of a major retrospective at Foam Amsterdam this winter.

ArtDaily 26/01/2025

Foam is presenting a major retrospective exhibition of the celebrated American artist Saul Leiter (1923鈥�2013).

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鈥� ..Leiter's visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity, and contingency is evoked by these subtle, painterly images that stretched the boundaries of photography in the second half of the 20th century." ... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Like them Leiter makes use of subtle, often mono or pan-chromatic colour fields, lines and form in direct relation to the human condition in the outside world... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Trained as a rabbi and subsequently as a painter, Leiter is recognised as one of the pioneers of colour photography... 鈥�
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