Kay, ex-Green Baret

1980s, printed 1989

Mariette Pathy Allen

Associated Names
Mariette Pathy Allen

Artist, American, born Egypt, 1940

The image shows a person reclining on a bed. They have medium-length dark brown curly hair, strong makeup, and wear a red robe over black clothing with red high-heeled shoes and black gloves. The person has a rope or whip in their right hand and a silver necklace on their neck. The background contains a room with red walls, a dark curtain, and a chest of drawers on the left. There is a framed portrait of another person with blonde curls, similar makeup, and black clothing hanging above the drawers, with a framed photograph on top of the drawers.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Donald C. and P. Dee Kirkpatrick, Bethesda, MD; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1997; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, lower left stamped in black ink: TRANSFORMATIONS / [line] / [line] / ED. NO. [line]; by Mariette Pathy Allen, graphite annotation in stamp: KAY EX-GREEN BERET / 12/50; by unknown hand, bottom left: 12.17.90.6; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1997.12.e

Wikidata ID

Q64157741

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