Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Private Foundation

Alice Neel

Gerard Malanga

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Foundation

Alice Neel

1900 - 1984


Gerard Malanga

signed and dated '69 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

60 by 40 in.

152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Executed in 1969.

The Estate of Alice Neel

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Acquired from the above in June 2005 by the present owner

Elizabeth Baker and Thomas Hess, eds., Art and Sexual Politics: Women’s Liberation, Women Artists, and Art History, New York, 1973, p. 72, illustrated

Ellen H. Johnson, "Alice Neel's Fifty Years of Portrait Painting," Studio International, Vol. 193, No. 987, March 1977, p. 175

Pamela Allara, Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery, Hanover, 1998, fig. 117, p. 185, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Alice Neel, 2000 - 2001, p. 68, illustrated in color

Roberta Fallon, "Philadelphia Story," Artnet Magazine, 28 March 2005, illustrated in color (online)

Phoebe Hoban, Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, New York, 2010, p. 307 (text)

Kito Nedo, "Alice Neel: 'Ich bin eine Seelensammlerin'," Art – Das Kunstmagazin, November 2017, p. 61, illustrated in color and p. 62 (text)

Jonathan Jones, "‘She really wanted to see my labia piercing’: what was it like to be painted by Alice Neel?," The Guardian, 21 February 2023, illustrated in color (online)

Raymond Foye and Gerard Malanga, "Grace to be Born, and Live as Variously as Possible," Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2023, illustrated in color (photographed with the artist in 1976) (online)

New York, Graham Gallery, Alice Neel, October - November 1970

Philadelphia, Moore College of Art and Design, Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Karen Kilimnik: Painted Faces, January - February 2002, p. 31 (text)

Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Alice Neel: Paintings and Drawings, March - April 2005, illustrated in color (on the cover) (detail), p. 10 (text) and pp. 36-37, illustrated in color

Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum; The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum; Arles, Fondation Vincent van Gogh; and Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Fotografie, Alice Neel, June 2016 - January 2018, no. 49, pp. 172-73, illustrated in color

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Alice Neel: The Engaged Eye); London, Barbican Art Gallery (Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle); and Oslo, Munch Museum (Alice Neel: Every Person Is a New Universe), October 2022 - November 2023, p. 109, illustrated in color (Paris); p. 86, illustrated in color (London)