Weird wonderland: Alice Neel at the Whitechapel Gallery
8 July 2010: 'Exhilarating, touching and a bit wild', a new exhibition of Alice Neel's portraits,
reviewed today by Hlcarpenter.com art critic Adrian Searle, captures the vanities and vulnerabilities of her New York milieu, from friends and family to Andy Warhol. Painted Truths is at
London's Whitechapel Gallery until 17 September 2010
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Andy Warhol (1970) Alice Neel's most famous portrait shows Warhol sitting in silent contemplation, at his waist the scars from an assassination attempt two years earlierPhotograph: Whitechapel Gallery
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Don Perlis and Jonathan (1982) A father-and-son portrait that resembles a 'medieval virgin with infant Christ', according to Hlcarpenter.com art critic Adrian Searle in his reviewPhotograph: Foto Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Jackie Curtis and Rita Redd (1970) This double portrait depicts a cross-dressed Jackie Curtis (the Jackie of Lou Reed's Walk On the Wild Side) with her loverPhotograph: Cleveland Museum of Art/Leonard C Hanna Jr Fund
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Self-Portrait (1980)Neel at the age of 80. 'She is herself and doesn't care for dignity, but she has it anyway,' writes Adrian SearlePhotograph: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
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Dead Father (1946)
Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel
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Last Sickness (1953)Photograph: Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Hartley S Neel and Richard Neel, 2003
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Pregnant Woman (1971)
Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel
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The De Vegh Twins (1975)
Photograph: Private collection, Washington DC
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Ginny and Elizabeth (1976)
Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel
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Alice Neel, who died in 1984, standing in front of her portrait of Andy Warhol. Painted Truths, an exhibition of her portraits, is at London's Whitechapel GalleryPhotograph: Fred W McDarrah/Getty Images
