About the artist

Alice Neel was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1900 and died in 1984 in New York. Recent solo institutional exhibitions have included the acclaimed 2021–2022 touring survey Alice Neel: People Come First, organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki in 2016, subsequently travelling to the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, France (2017), before concluding at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2017); Alice Neel: The Subject and Me, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh (2016); Alice Neel: Intimate Relations at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn (2013); Alice Neel: Painted Truths, a retrospective that toured to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2010), the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2010) and the Moderna Museet, Malmö (2010–11).

A major upcoming retrospective, Alice Neel: Un regard engagé, opens at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in October 2022 (5 October 2022–2 January 2023). Work by the artist was included in the recent exhibition Women Painting Women, on view at The Modern, Fort Worth (until 25 September 2022).

The Estate of Alice Neel has been represented in the UK by Victoria Miro since 2004; this is her eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Her work is in the collections of major museums internationally including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Denver Art Museum; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate, London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.