LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (height) by 41.73 in. (106.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 70

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Moore College of Art & Design, Alice Neel, January - February 1971 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alice Neel, February - March 1974, cat. no. 46 Saratoga Springs, Art Gallery New Art Center Skidmore College, Alice Neel Paintings, November - December 1978, cat. no. 8 (exhibition checklist) Akron Art Institute, Alice Neel, December 1978 - January 1979 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years, April - June 1982 Akron, Akron Art Museum, The Human Presence, November 1986 - March 1987 Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Alice Neel's Women, October 2005 - January 2006 Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, June - September 2009 (extended loan).

Literature:

"Alice Neel - Review", Akron Beacon Journal, December 14, 1978, illustrated (photograph with the artist) Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Alice Neel, 2000, p. 172, illustrated (photograph of installation at 1971 Moore College of Art & Design show)

Provenance:

Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist