Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Alice Neel’s Illustrations of “The Brothers Karamazov”

Alice Neel’s Illustrations of “The Brothers Karamazov”


Neel, known for her penetrating portraiture, drew eight scenes from Dostoevsky’s famous novel for an edition that was never published. A new collection of her drawings shows how well the black storm cloud of Neel’s pen is suited to Dostoyevsky’s questions of God, reason, and doubt.

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