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The Arab

1976
20th C.
North America, U.S.A.
43 7/8 in. x 32 1/2 in. (111.4 cm x 82.6 cm)

By (primary)
Alice Neel American, 1900–1984

Medium: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Museum purchase made possible by the Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation

Accession Number: 2010.25

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Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, PhD, Assistant Curator of American Art, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University:
Alice Neel’s The Arab depicts an unknown seated ﬁgure dressed casually in jeans, an unbuttoned white shirt, and a green cargo jacket. Neel was a pioneering twentieth-century female painter who created intimate portraits of prominent New Yorkers, such as Andy Warhol and Frank O’Hara, as well as various subjects she met in her neighborhood while living in Spanish Harlem and, later, the Upper West Side. Though the name of the portrait’s subject remains unknown, Neel’s painting suffuses a rare and unparalleled sense of life and vibrancy into the representation of otherwise “unrepresented” subjects, such as women, children, and people of color, which was unprecedented in painting at this time.

Provenance

L.A. Louver Gallery (dealer), Venice, CA

Bibliography

Alice Neel Paintings in association with Jeremy Lewison Limited (Venice, Calif., LA Louver, 2010)

Miles, Christopher. "Alice Neel at L.A. Louver," LA Weekly, May 27, 2010, n.p. repr.

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