![]() Leiter, who was born in 1923, started taking pictures in adolescence, but despite showing early promise as a photographer and painter he mostly remained obscure. Primitive trinkets and vintage toys, including a Mickey Mouse doll, sit on the mantle canvases of folk and Japanese art lean against the walls. Figurative paintings by Soames Bantry, Leiter’s partner, hang alongside his own abstract watercolors. Old saucers that he used as palettes are stacked on the window ledge above a quiet courtyard. A high-backed wooden chair, where he painted and drank coffee, sits in a corner of a large room lit by a wall of windows. The apartment today is far more organized than it was when Leiter died, but evidence of his life is everywhere. ![]()
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