“I always felt people are open if you can catch them off guard. You can get them to see something that they may not have been able to see before. The idea was by making the paintings big, you eliminated all of the nuances of prettiness, which could be seen as distractions... If you can get them to think about what it is they’re seeing, what it is they’re thinking about, it can perhaps lead to other thoughts about themselves or the world inside and the world outside.”
— Alfred Leslie
- Provenance
  Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist)
  Baron/Boisanté Editions, New York
  Jack and Sandra Terner, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on October 6, 1994)
  Thence by descent to the present owner
- Exhibited
  New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, January 1960
  Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 4 Amerikanare: Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Stankiewicz, March 17–May 6, 1962, no. 48, pp. 68, 92 (illustrated, p. 68)
- Literature
  Fred W. McDarrah, The Artist's World In Pictures, New York, 1988, p. 90 (Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, installation view illustrated)

Property from the Terner Family Collection, Los Angeles

Alfred Leslie

Hipped

signed, titled and inscribed "Santini 67 Alfred Leslie Hipped" on the reverse
oil on canvas
95 x 113 in. (241.3 x 287 cm)
Painted in 1959.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000

Sold for $241,300

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New York Auction 15 May 2024