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ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)

Lot 34
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 1 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949327
Lot 34 | ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)

Pregnant Bette Homitzky

signed and dated 'NEEL '68' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'PREGNANT BETTY - 1968 ALICE NEEL' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

60 x 36 in. (152.4 x 91.4 cm.)

Painted in 1968.





Provenance

Estate of Alice Neel

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987



Literature

P. Hills, Alice Neel, New York, 1983, p. 133 (illustrated).

N. Princenthal, "About Faces: Alice Neel's Portraits," Parkett, 1988, pp. 8 and 16, no. 16 (illustrated).

P. Allara, ""Matter" of fact: Alice Neel's Pregnant Nudes," American Art, vol. 8, no. 2, 1994, pp. 24 and 26, no. 17 (illustrated).

C. Carr, Alice Neel: Women, New York, 2002, p. 149 (illustrated).

C. Kino, "A Grandson Paints a Portrait of a Portraitist," New York Times, April 2007.

A. Hottle, The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration, Burlington, 2014, p. 141, no. 4.15 (illustrated).

Alice Neel: People Come First, exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, pp. 41-42, no. 25 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, David Zwirner, Alice Neel: Freedom, February-April 2019, pp. 72-73 and 109 (illustrated).
Artist:Alice Neel (1900 - 1984)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Paintings
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