Andrew Lambirth

Psychological approach

Alice Neel: Painted Truths<br /> Whitechapel Gallery, until 17 September Paula Rego: Oratorio<br /> Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1, until 20 August

issue 24 July 2010

Alice Neel: Painted Truths
Whitechapel Gallery, until 17 September

Paula Rego: Oratorio
Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1, until 20 August

The last time I wrote about Alice Neel (1900–84), on the occasion of an exhibition mounted six years ago by the commercial gallery Victoria Miro, a reader wrote in to correct my statement that Neel’s work had not been shown outside her native America.

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