...In these and Peggy — a slightly Matisse-ish, lovely and lyrical yet frank and harsh portrait of the battered girlfriend of one of Neel's acquaintances — we see the artist becoming the Neel we know, the one whose paintings of the '60s and the '70s flesh out the rest of this exhibition. [http://www.laweekly.com/arts/alice-neel-at-la-louver-2165329]