Silkscreen print in colors, 1981, pencil signed, dated, and numbered 2/175 lower margin, unframed.

Image size 23 x 30 5/8 in.; Sheet size 26 x 33 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Robert Barach, New York, New York

Alice Neel was born in Pennsylvania and attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She married a fellow artist, Carlos Enríquez, and moved to Cuba where they lived at his family's home. After the birth and death of her first child, she became estranged from her husband, and soon she began an affair with Kenneth Doolittle. Her complicated personal relationships define much of her life and career. Neel exhibited widely in New York and worked for the Federal Art Project of the WPA from 1933 through 1943.

She is best known for the portraiture she made of the people around her, which was critiqued “Neel seems to detect a hidden weakness in her sitters which she drags out, yelping, into the clear glare of day.” She captured her sitters honestly and authentically, stating "I never followed any school. I never imitated any artist. I never did any of that. I believe what I am is a humanist. That's the way I see the world, and that is what I paint."

A nice impression; some wear and nicks in margins; crease at right.