Alice Neel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983, HC, Very Good

Neel, Alice. New York. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1983.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 9” x 11 ½,” 207 pp.

ISBN: 0810913585

Gray cloth over boards, white stamped titling to spine, in publisher’s dust jacket with full-color images to front, back, and spine, white text to front and spine, black text and black-and-white photograph to white inside gate flaps. Black marker to bottom edge of papers, very minor age toning, very minor edgewear, otherwise clean throughout, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Mild edgewear, mild shelfwear to Mylar sleeve, otherwise excellent. 207 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. Text by Alice Neel and Patricia Hills, Foreword by William D. Paul, Jr. Hear directly from Alice Neel about her life, artistic process, and inspirations while pursuing 183 of her paintings and sketches. From the dust jacket: “Never compromising, Neel…steadfastly kept to one goal: to paint people honestly, as she saw them…Alice Neel’s narrative is spicy and very moving, and it brings to life an arresting collection of people, with their fallings, delights, feelings, and aspirations.”