Alice Neel
By: Elisabeth Lebovici
Contributors: Lebovici, E. (Elisabeth); Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher: Xavier Hufkens Galerie
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Brussel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9789491245138
Subjects: Exhibitions; American Portrait painting; American Drawing; Social realism
Description: Born in Philadelphia in 1900, Alice Neel trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and carved out a career as an artist in New York, often in difficult circumstances. Neel's dedication to the unfashionable art of portrait painting and social realism and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant-garde artistic developments. Neel's posthumous success is intimately connected to her profound social conscience and idiosyncratic choice of sitters. After her death in 1984, critical interest in Neel's work further intensified and led to a series of landmark exhibitions in Europe. Drawn from the artists estate, the exhibition and catalogue include paintings from all periods of Neel's career, together with a selection of drawings. Exhibition: Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (27 February 11 April 2015).
Notes: This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition Alice Neel at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels from 27 February to 11 April 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.