Artwork Title: Pregnant Woman

Pregnant Woman, 1971

Alice Neel

"...Her belly is hugely swollen, her breasts are sore and her face looks sad and blank as she confronts the future. There is nothing joyful here, just an exhausted recognition that late pregnancy is the moment when a woman loses a selfhood to which she may never fully return." "...her daughter-in-law Nancy shortly before she gave birth to twins, in an image conveying sickness, isolation and depression. Nancy's husband shares her angst by proxy, via a drawing above her head."
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