Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Private Foundation
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)
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