Weird wonderland: Alice Neel at the Whitechapel Gallery

Andy Warhol (1970)
Alice Neel's most famous portrait shows Warhol sitting in silent contemplation, at his waist the scars from an assassination attempt two years earlier
Photograph: Whitechapel Gallery

Don Perlis and Jonathan (1982)
A father-and-son portrait that resembles a 'medieval virgin with infant Christ', according to Guardian art critic Adrian Searle in his review
Photograph: Foto Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jackie Curtis and Rita Redd (1970)
This double portrait depicts a cross-dressed Jackie Curtis (the Jackie of Lou Reed's Walk On the Wild Side) with her lover
Photograph: Cleveland Museum of Art/Leonard C Hanna Jr Fund

Self-Portrait (1980)
Neel at the age of 80. 'She is herself and doesn't care for dignity, but she has it anyway,' writes Adrian Searle
Photograph: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Dead Father (1946) Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel

Last Sickness (1953)
Photograph: Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Hartley S Neel and Richard Neel, 2003

Pregnant Woman (1971) Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel

The De Vegh Twins (1975) Photograph: Private collection, Washington DC

Ginny and Elizabeth (1976) Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel

Alice Neel, who died in 1984, standing in front of her portrait of Andy Warhol.
Painted Truths, an exhibition of her portraits, is at London's Whitechapel Gallery
Photograph: Fred W McDarrah/Getty Images