Leopold Segedin

1927, Chicago

With a career spanning more than 70 years, Leo Segedin is Rare Nest’s “senior artist” and indeed, is a beloved senior artist in the whole Chicago region.  Still painting every day at 93 years old, Leo is a prolific and visionary artist and community-builder.  Many of his works from the last 30 years contain auto-biographical elements and self-portraits (“I’m a cheap model”) in dual poses juxtaposing youth and honest age.  The dream-like settings of Leo’s work evoke vernacular Chicago architecture - streetscapes and train stations of Chicago’s west side from the 1930’s to the present.  Leo's serial works explore the complex emotional life behind childhood games, conflict around difference and ultimately the strength of the individual.  Segedin has mastered meticulous techniques, reminiscent of Flemish masters, in order to evoke the life of an outsider. Leo achieves supreme poetry in his work...

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Craps, 2001. Archival print, signed
Craps, 2001. Archival print, signed
from $370.00
Rush Hour, 2008. Archival print, signed
Rush Hour, 2008. Archival print, signed
from $310.00
Buck Buck, 2012. Archival print, signed
Buck Buck, 2012. Archival print, signed
from $380.00
Follow the Leader I, 2016. Archival print, signed
Follow the Leader I, 2016. Archival print, signed
from $380.00
First Judgment, 2017. Archival print, signed
First Judgment, 2017. Archival print, signed
from $380.00
L Station III, 1996. Archival print, signed
L Station III, 1996. Archival print, signed
from $370.00
Confrontation, 1999. Archival print, signed
Confrontation, 1999. Archival print, signed
from $380.00
Pilot Fantasy, 1999. Archival print, signed
Pilot Fantasy, 1999. Archival print, signed
from $370.00
Palimpset I (And Sons), 1990. Archival print, signed
Palimpset I (And Sons), 1990. Archival print, signed
from $380.00