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Cut Glass with Fruit
Alice Neel American
Not on view
A view inside her home in Spanish Harlem, Cut Glass with Fruit is a virtuosic example of Neel’s paint handling, particularly evident in her ability to capture and translate prismatic effects of color and reflected and refracted light. The broken, shifted line of the table’s far edge is a stylistic nod to French artist
Paul Cézanne, whose work Neel greatly admired. A very similar interior view served as the setting for one of her memorable portraits (also in this exhibition) of young Georgie Arce, a boy from the neighborhood.
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