Lot 255
255
Alice Neel (1900-1984)
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR
Alice Neel (1900-1984)

Untitled

Details
Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Neel 78' (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Geoffrey Holder with love, Alice Neel '83' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
29 x 19 in. (73.7 x 73.6 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
Provenance
Geoffrey Holder, New York
DC Moore Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lot Essay

"I really live out my front room windows, which face up Broadway from 107th street. Its like having a street in your living room... Since I've always been claustrophobic it is a great escape for me not to feel shut up in a room....." (Alice Neel quoted in P. Allara, Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery, Waltham, 1998, p. 159).

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