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Self-Portrait by Alice Neel

The Nude in Art

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Ben Street talks us through this self-portrait by the late American realist painter, Alice Neel. Discover how Neel flips the age-old tradition of the ideal female nude on its head in this portrait, made when was 80 years old.

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