The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. Several months before her death in 1984, artist Alice ...

Photo by Ben Davis. Alice Neel painted “the human comedy.” It’s a phrase she repeated often in interviews and in text, throughout her life. It is the title of one of the sections of “ Alice Neel: ...

In the 1978 documentary "Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts," the artist said, "One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle. ... "With me, painting was ...

The painter Alice Neel was neglected in her lifetime, but is today “celebrated for her unflinching yet compassionate gaze”, said Chloë Ashby in The Times. Born into a conservative family in ...

Alice Neel was a painter who lived in Harlem. Her entire life, she created portraits of (mostly) New Yorkers, seated in their kitchens, at bars, among loved ones, gazing out their windows. As Neel ...

The painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) only started to be recognized as a visionary after her time had passed. Her first major exhibition came when she was already 71 years old, at her alma mater, the ...

Alice Neel, "Self‐Portrait" 1980, oil on canvas, 53 1/4 × 39 3/4 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art; © The Estate of Alice Neel) At 80 ...

More than 25 years after her death in 1984, American painter is once again capturing the art world's attention. In part, the resurgence is because of Phoebe Hoban's new book on the artist's ...

When Alice Neel painted Andy Warhol in 1970, he chose to sit topless with his eyes clamped shut. Then 70 years old, Neel was good at talking people out of their clothes; she saw disrobing them as a ...

Alice Neel, born on January 28, 1900, in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, was an influential American painter renowned for her powerful and expressive portraits. Neel's early career was marked by personal ...

Writing in the interwar gloom of the late 1930s, Cyril Connolly warned that “there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” It was a catchy encapsulation of an idea with ancient ...

The artist’s career-spanning survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to close. By Roberta Smith “Alice Neel: People Come First,” on view through Aug. 1, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is ...