Alice Neel
Author | : Alice Neel |
Publisher | : David Zwirner Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 1934435554 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781934435557 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Alice Neel (1900-1984) is widely considered one of the greatest portraitists of the twentieth century. Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artist's life. Called "the pre-eminent painter-chronicler of New York bohemia" by Deborah Solomon of The New York Times, Neel remains a hero to many of today's most influential figurative painters, including Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and Marlene Dumas--as much for the emotional and psychological intensity of her work as for her exemplary fearlessness.