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The Honest Appraisals of Alice Neel

New York | 15 November

From the late 1960s, the works of Alice Neel have served as icons of the women’s movement through their honest accounting of beauty at all stages of life. In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, explore Neel’s distinctive psychological portraiture through her masterpiece Guy’s Aunt, offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Auction in New York. (New York|15 November)

Contemporary Art Day Auction

15 November 2019 | 10:00 AM EST | New York

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