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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Alice Neel

Jackie Curtis as a Boy

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Alice Neel

1900 - 1984


Jackie Curtis as a Boy

signed and dated 72 (lower left)

oil on canvas

44 by 30 in. 111.8 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1972.

The artist

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 12 November 2008, lot 186 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alice Neel, February - March 1974, no. 52, n.p. 

New Jersey, Summit Art Center, Paintings by Alice Neel, May - June 1974 

Tokyo, Tokyu Department Store; and Osaka, Han Shin Department Store, Tokyo International Biennial, 1974: New Image in Painting, September 1974, n.p.

Pennsylvania, Glenside, Beaver College Art Gallery, Alice Neel, March - April 1976 

Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Alice Neel, February 1978, no. 23

Milwaukee, Alverno College, Alice Neel, October - November 1978 

Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, New Art Center, Alice Neel Paintings, November - December 1978 

Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, Paintings by Alice Neel, March 1979, p. 3

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alice Neel: Paintings Since 1970, January - March 1985, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Alice Neel: Paintings and Drawings, March - May 1986, p. 27, illustrated in color 

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; and Denver Museum of Art, Alice Neel, June 2000 - December 2001, pl. 60, p. 140, illustrated in color and p. 185

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; London, Whitechapel Gallery; and Malmo, Moderna Museet, Alice Neel: Painted Truths, March 2010 - January 2011, no. 25, pp. 156-157, illustrated in color and pp. 70, 277

Helsinki, Finnish National Gallery; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum den haag; Arles, Fondation Vincent van Gogh; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life, June 2016 - January 2018, pp. 63, 188-189, illustrated in color

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and San Francisco, De Young Museum, Alice Neel: People Come First, March 2021- July 2022, p. 179, illustrated in color and p. 248

Paris, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture, Alice Neel: The Engaged Eye, October 2022 - January 2023, p. 108, illustrated in color and p. 158

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle, February - May 2023, p. 100, illustrated in color and p. 143

Patricia Hills, Alice Neel, New York, 1983, p. 151, illustrated in color

Eleanor Heartney, "How Wide is the Gender Gap?" ARTNews, Summer 1987, p. 142, illustrated in color

Celia McGee, "The Eye Has It," Home & Garden, January 1990, p. 144, illustrated in color 

Craig B. Highberger, Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis, New York, 2015, n.p.

John Hoberman, "A Frank Exchange of Views," The Point Magazine, 8 June 2021 (online)

Tony Bravo, "Painter Alice Neel’s portraits of humanity timely in light of Ukraine invasion," San Francisco Chronicle, 12 March 2022 (online)