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Black Bottles
Alice Neel American
Not on view
In an interview with art historian Patricia Hills in the early 1980s, Neel recollected painting this handsome still life, explaining: "When you go to art school you do bottles. I had these beautiful bottles. It was like doing a thing that you did many years ago and then doing it again. I love the feeling in this." The painting provides a narrow view inside her apartment on the Upper West Side, where she moved in 1962.
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