Contemporary Curated
Contemporary Curated
Alice Neel
Portrait of Ben Medary
Auction Closed
September 28, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alice Neel
1900 - 1984
Portrait of Ben Medary
signed and dated 1930 (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 by 25 in.
76.2 by 63.5 cm.
Executed in 1930.
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Christie's, New York, 8 November 1993, lot 232
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Christie's, New York, 8 November 1993, lot 232
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Gerald Belcher, Collecting Souls, Gathering Dust: The Struggles of Two American Artists, Alice Neel and Rhoda Medary, New York 1991, no. 18, p. 132, illustrated
Richard D. Segal and Monica M. Segal, Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, Portland 2007, p. 124, illustrated in color
Richard D. Segal and Monica M. Segal, Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, Portland 2007, p. 124, illustrated in color
Southampton Art Center, About Face, July - September 2017