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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2023 | Christie's | New York | A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection Part I | 34C | $****** - ****** | Pregnant Bette Homitzky |
paintings
152.4 x 91.4 cm (60 x 36 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'NEEL '68' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'PREGNANT BETTY - 1968 ALICE NEEL' (on the stretcher)
Estate of Alice Neel
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987
New York, David Zwirner, Alice Neel: Freedom , February-April 2019, pp. 72-73 and 109 (illustrated).
P. Hills, Alice Neel , New York, 1983, p. 133 (illustrated).
N. Princenthal, "About Faces: Alice Neel's Portraits," Parkett, 1988, pp. 8 and 16, no. 16 (illustrated).
P. Allara, ""Matter" of fact: Alice Neel's Pregnant Nudes," American Art , vol. 8, no. 2, 1994, pp. 24 and 26, no. 17 (illustrated).
C. Carr, Alice Neel: Women, New York, 2002, p. 149 (illustrated).
C. Kino, "A Grandson Paints a Portrait of a Portraitist," New York Times, April 2007.
A. Hottle, The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration, Burlington, 2014, p. 141, no. 4.15 (illustrated).
Alice Neel: People Come First, exh. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, pp. 41-42, no. 25 (illustrated).
ALICE NEEL (1900-1984)
Pregnant Bette Homitzky
signed and dated 'NEEL '68' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'PREGNANT BETTY - 1968 ALICE NEEL' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
60 x 36 in. (152.4 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1968.
