Robert L. Neal Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert L. Neal Art Value Price Guide

May. 26, 2022
ROBERT LEE NEAL (1916 - 1987, AMERICAN) Untitled, (Still Life with Salt).
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
ROBERT LEE NEAL (1916 - 1987, AMERICAN) Untitled, (Still Life with Salt). Oil in canvas, 1986. 762x610 mm; 30x24 inches. Signed, R. Neal, and dated, 86, lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist; Private collection, Ohio.
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May. 26, 2022
ROBERT LEE NEAL (1916 - 1987, AMERICAN) Untitled, (Abstraction).
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
ROBERT LEE NEAL (1916 - 1987, AMERICAN) Untitled, (Abstraction). Oil and collage on canvas, 1985. 610x762 mm; 24x30 inches. Signed, Robert Neal, and dated, 85, lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist; Private collection, Ohio.
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Oct. 07, 2021
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Street People.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
STREET PEOPLE, 1986 ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Street People. Oil on cotton canvas, 1986. 889x787 mm; 35x31 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Titled in pencil, verso. Provenance: the estate of the artist; private collection, Ohio. Robert Neal's powerful and beautiful painting of homeless men on the street in a snow storm is poignant image of modern American life. Like Neal's 1984 painting Cheese and Butter Line, it is a reminder of how poverty affects the lives of many different Americans. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s and continued painting; unfortunately, little is recorded about his later career. His paintings are now in the collections of the High Museum and the Columbus Museum of Art. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Aug. 24, 2021
Robert Lee Neal (1916 - 1987) American "Coastal Landscape"
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Robert Lee Neal (1916 - 1987) American "Coastal Landscape" Oil / Masonite ,Signed Lower Right ,measures 17.5" x 24" inches
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May. 22, 2021
Robert LeRalph Neal, 1916-1987, Portrait of a Woman
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Robert LeRalph Neal 1916-1987 Portrait of a Woman c. 1956 oil on canvas 40 x 29 inches signed; signed and dated verso
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Apr. 22, 2021
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Winter Landscape).
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Winter Landscape). Oil on masonite board, 1963. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This Robert Neal oil is a likely a landscape from the Ohio Valley, and shows the continued influence of Hale Woodruff on the artist in his postwar painting. Like Frederick Flemister and Albert Wells, Neal was both a student and follower of Woodruff.
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Apr. 22, 2021
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Dock Scene).
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Dock Scene). Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, circa 1945-50. 343x381 mm; 13 1/2x15 inches. Signed indistinctly in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: private collection, Colorado.
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Dec. 10, 2020
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Cheese and Butter Line.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Cheese and Butter Line. Oil on cotton canvas, 1984. 965x813 mm; 36x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Titled and dated in pencil, upper right verso. Provenance: the artist, Dayton, Ohio, with his handwritten label on the frame back; the estate of the artist, private collection, Ohio. Robert Neal's powerful painting of a line of people waiting for food is a reminder of how poverty and hunger affects the lives of many different Americans. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is recorderd about his latter life or career. His paintings are now in the collections of the High Museum and the Columbus Museum of Art. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Jun. 04, 2020
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Letter From Vietnam.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Letter From Vietnam. Oil on masonite board, circa 1972-75. 775x669 mm; 30 1/2x26 1/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist; private collection, Ohio. This intense scene of a soldier's wife and child receiving terrible news is a scarce contemporary painting of the experiences of African-Americans during the Vietnam War by an African-American artist. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is known about his latter life or career. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Jun. 04, 2020
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Winter Landscape).
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Winter Landscape). Oil on masonite board, 1963. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This Robert Neal oil is a likely a landscape from the Ohio Valley, and shows the continued influence of Hale Woodruff on the artist in his postwar painting. Like Frederick Flemister and Albert Wells, Neal was both a student and follower of Woodruff.
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Jun. 04, 2020
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Coastal Landscape with Cypress Tree).
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Coastal Landscape with Cypress Tree). Watercolor on paper, mounted on thin board, circa 1950. 508x610 mm; 20x24 inches. inches. Signed in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This early landscape by Robert Neal is a possible Californian coastal view and shows the influence of Hale Woodruff on the artist. Like Frederick Flemister and Albert Wells, Neal was both a student and follower of Woodruff.
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Oct. 08, 2019
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Southern Landscape).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Southern Landscape). Watercolor on heavy cream wove paper, 1982. 457x610 mm; 18x24 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist.
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Oct. 04, 2018
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) The Petrified Forest.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) The Petrified Forest. Oil on cotton canvas, 1962. 711x1232 mm; 28x42 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed and titled in pencil, verso, and signed and dated in pencil, upper stretcher bar verso. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This surreal painting is the most unusual painting - an allegorical self-portrait by the artist. Neal has depicted a tree-like form whose limbs have taken the shape of the different trades he worked - bricklayer, painter and carpenter. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is known about his latter life or career. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Apr. 05, 2018
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Keep Out).
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Keep Out). Watercolor, pen ank ink on illustration board, 1958. 381x508 mm; 15x20 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist.
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Apr. 05, 2018
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Rearguard.
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Rearguard. Oil on linen canvas, 1950. 705x597 mm; 27 3/4x23 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist. This intense portrait of a soldier is a very scarce image of the Korean War (1950-53) by an African-American artist. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is known about his latter life or career. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Oct. 05, 2017
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Pacific World War II Still Life).
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Pacific World War II Still Life). Oil on masonite board, circa 1941-45. 421x558 mm; 16 1/2x22 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This striking still life is a scarce World War II subject by an African-American artist - inspired by the U.S. armed forces fighting in the Pacific. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. At the same time, Neal exhibited his own paintings and was included in the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s; unfortunately, little is known about his latter life or career. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Apr. 06, 2017
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) The Laborer.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) The Laborer. Oil on masonite board, circa 1975. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed and titled in oil, verso. Provenance: the estate of the artist.
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Oct. 06, 2016
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Kitchen Still Life, Dayton, Ohio).
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1987) Untitled (Kitchen Still Life, Dayton, Ohio). Oil on masonite board, circa 1940-45. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This charming 1940s still life is only the second artwork by this painter and muralist to come to auction. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. Neal transferred Woodruff's drawings to the canvas, and then installed the canvases to the walls after Woodruff had fallen ill. Neal's signature was even recently found on the verso of the mural canvas Repatriation of the Freed Captives, when it was recently restored for the museum exhibition Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College. Robert Neal exhibited his own paintings at the same time. His work was included in two of the most celebrated national exhibitions of African-American Fine Art - the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibition of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in two seminal art histories - Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Robert Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s - the inscription "Dayton, O.", printed on the calendar, helps us date this painting. Unfortunately, little is known about the later life or career of this talented artist. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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Apr. 07, 2016
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1989) Untitled (Fisherman's House at River's Edge).
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
ROBERT NEAL (1916 - 1989) Untitled (Fisherman's House at River's Edge). Oil on linen canvas, circa 1939. 508x660 mm; 20x26 inches. Signed in oil, upper right recto. Signed in oil, center verso. Provenance: acquired from family descendants of the artist, Colorado; private collection, Colorado. This outstanding 1930s painting is a wonderful discovery - the first artwork by this painter and muralist to come to auction. A native of Atlanta, Robert Neal was a student of Hale Woodruff's and became his studio assistant at Spelman College, working on the Talladega College Amistad murals in 1939. Neal transferred Woodruff's drawings to the canvas, and then installed the canvases to the walls after Woodruff had fallen ill. Neal's signature was even recently found on the verso of the mural canvas Repatriation of the Freed Captives, when it was recently restored for the museum exhibtion Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College. Robert Neal exhibited his own paintings at the same time. His work was included in two of the most celebrated national exhibtions of African-American Fine Art - the 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art's Contemporary Negro Art, the first museum group exhibiton of African-American artists, and the 1940 Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) at the Tanner Galleries in Chicago, the largest survey of African-American art at the time. Neal is also mentioned in two seminal art histories - Alain Locke's 1940 The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of The Negro Artist and of The Negro Theme In Art, and James A. Porter's 1943 Modern Negro Art. Like Frederick Flemister and Albert Wells, Neal was clearly a disciple of Hale Woodruff - his influence on Neal's approach and style is immediately apparent in this painting. The landscape is a Georgian rural scene outside Atlanta with the Spanish moss hanging from the trees. Neal moved to Dayton, Ohio in the 1940s, and little is known about his later career. Heydt pp. 80, 132.
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