Alice Neel told by her relatives: "We sang together Irish songs of the rebellion or The Internationale"

Painter without concessions, painter without taboos, painter without barriers.

It is in the same way, radical and lively, that Alice Neel (1900-1984) painted her relatives, her friends, her family in this downgraded, intellectual and militant New York where the D system reigns. his portraits so direct, so frontal, so fair, sensitive without sentimentality, as Bernanos would say, we find his youngest son Hartley and his wife Ginny, in their young bohemian years.

Within the framework defined by Alice Neel, Ginny is then a brunette with long hair, a tanned mermaid in mini-shorts and a sailor top, a Madonna in a tank top or a long mauve dress, a young mother in overalls and with dark circles holding a baby in her turquoise look like her pajamas.

In a hallucinated painting from 1970, Alice Neel paints the young couple, with the same green cat eyes, tightly embraced, Ginny offensive, all in sky blue cheekbones and facial ridges, Hartley pensive, gentle, as if absent from the confrontation.

They are…

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