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...Xavier Hufkens has six paintings from six decades by Alice Neel, starting in 1934 and priced up to $1.2m....
...From the 1933 pencil sketch of her lover Kenneth Doolittle — huddled, naked, open-mouthed, the charcoal shading on his cheeks expressing his internal darkness — to the 1941 pencil portrait of Brody staring...
...As we see from her portraits of trade union activists and committed writers (Art Shields, Kenneth Fearing) the young Neel found consolation in leftwing causes....
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