Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship - Villa Grisebach

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915 R Alice Neel
Merion Square/Pennsylvania 1928 – 1984 New York
PORTRAIT DICK BAGLEY. 1946
Oil on canvas. 76 x 63 cm (29 ⅞ x 24 ¾ in.).
Signed lower left: Neel.
Framed.
Donated by Hartley Neel and Richard Neel.
Exhibition: Alice Neel. Paintings and Drawings.
Berlin, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, 2010-11,
full-page colour ill. p. 11
€ 280.000 – 350.000
$ 363,000 – 453,000
Grisebach 11/2012
For a long time Alice Neel was only known to insiders, even
though she had been honored with a major exhibition by the
Whitney Museum, New York, in 1974, and had enjoyed growing
recognition towards the end of her life. But only the last few
years have seen a wider awareness of her work, fueled by a
retrospective that was shown in Houston, London, and Malmö.
Neel is now considered one of the preeminent American
women artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
In her psychologically insightful portraits the artist frequently
depicted artist friends and people from her neighborhood of
Spanish Harlem. The here portrayed Richard Bagley was a
Greenwich Village documentary cinematographer whose later
work included Lionel Rogosin’s ”On the Bowery“ and Sydney
Myers’s ”The Quiet One“, both of which where nominated for
Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.