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

Alice Neel (1900-1984)

Untitled

Closed13 November 2008

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USD 104,500

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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.

Geoffrey Holder, New York
DC Moore Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"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).