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Alice Neel versus Alex Katz




Thanks to Helen Sear for pointing out this article from Time out by Ossian Ward, titled Alice Neel versus Alex Katz

‘New York portrait painters Alice Neel and Alex Katz go head to head in exhibitions at The Whitechapel Gallery and National Portrait Gallery respectively. Ossian Ward adjudicates over a style war’.




Alice Neel, Self Portrait, (1980)
Image by Alex Katz, The Black Dress, (1960)

http://www.aliceneel.com/
http://www.alexkatz.com/



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