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Pregnant Maria
Alice Neel American
Not on view
By most accounts, this is the first in Neel’s remarkable series of pregnant female nudes. Compared to expectant mothers in other paintings in the series, Maria appears confident and self-possessed, completely unperturbed by her bodily and personal conditions. Neel’s broad passages of color powerfully articulate her volumetric breasts, belly, and thighs, enhanced by pregnancy.
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