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(NEEL, ALICE), Harris, Ann Southerland & Guy Luster. New York: Graham Gallery, 1978. First Edition. Small Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Good.. np (10pp), 4 color illustrations. With a biography, exhibition checklist, exhibition history, bibliography and collections listing. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Alice Neel - one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century, reinvented the genre by expressing the inner landscape of her subjects, who included luminaries such as Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg as well as her neighbors in Spanish Harlem. This is the slender ten page catalogue cum brochure published in conjunction with a 1978 Graham Gallery retrospective exhibition of fifty-seven works on paper executed between 1926 and 1978. A presentable example of this uncommon item which is according to its bibliography the first monographic publication on the beloved late artist showing soiling, wear and creasing to the covers along with a short closed tear to the foredge of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026153