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Alice Neel
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description
- Alice Neel
- Portrait of the Judge as a Young Activist
- signed and dated '64; signed and dated 1964 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 36 by 24 in. 91.4 by 61 cm.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in 1964
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. The edges of the canvas are taped. There are a few very minor pin-point accretions. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Throughout her long career Neel had held these modes - the documentary and the subjective, the photographic and the painterly - in delicate suspension. Without using the camera, she conveyed its effects on painting... she intuitively recognized that portraits are documents created out of the immediacy of experience, that their effect changes with the passage of time and thereby records time."
Susan Rosenberg (Ann Temkin, ed., Alice Neel, exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, 2000)