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ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)
Lot 211

ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)

Untitled

Closed14 May 2021

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USD 500,000

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ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Neel 1940' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 15 in. (61 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1940.

ACA Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1950

Specialist note

One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle, because when painting or writing are good, it’s taken right out of life itself, in my mind.
—Alice Neel