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Cleveland Museum of Art buys an Alice Neel
Cleveland Museum of Art recently purchased Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd at Sotheby's, New York in November 2009. This painting, formerly in the collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers, depicts two members of Andy Warhol's entourage, and is a major double portrait from 1970. It will be included in the forthcoming survey of Neel's work that opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in March 2010.
Paint Made Flesh
Following its successful showing at The Frist Center for contemporary Art, Nashville, Tennesse, Paint Made Flesh opens at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C on 20 June. The exhibition presents paintings created in Europe and the United States since the 1950s in which a wide range of painterly effects suggest the carnal properties and cultural significance of human flesh and skin. As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paint’s material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability. The exhibition includes works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neel, Leon Golub, Philip Guston, Eric Fischl, Georg Baselitz, Jenny Saville, Wangechi Mutu, John Currin, Cecily Brown, Daniel Richter and others.