With In My Room, Leiter ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. View Saul Leiter’s 226 artworks on artnet. Leiter preferred solitude in life, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter’s color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for forty years afterwards they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter was an American artist and early pioneer of color photography.

The prolific Leiter, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now we are granted a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes, but never realized the project in his lifetime.

Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal the unique collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew.

Woman by Saul Leiter