‘The world finally caught up with Alice Neel’: the painter, remembered by her family
msn.comthe American artist Alice Neel – suggests the headgear became his signature long ago. It’s the same beret, he tells me. Neel, who described herself as “a collector of souls”, painted her son “many hundreds” of times before her death in 1984.
The experience of sitting for his mother always gave Hartley “a moment of peace”, he says. “You start thinking about all sorts of things: yourself and what you know, reviewing your life.
It’s a very reflective time. When I was younger, it was harder, of course, but we were always happy to do it. ”An exhibition of Neel’s portraits opens at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London this week.
There’s Still Another I See considers individuals – lovers, family and friends, many of them artists or writers themselves – whom Neel painted at least twice between the 1930s and 1980s.
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