Andy Becoming Andi

1980s, printed 1989

Mariette Pathy Allen

Associated Names
Mariette Pathy Allen

Artist, American, born Egypt, 1940

The image captures a person leaning over an ironing board to work with red fabric. They wear glasses, have short dark hair, and wear a beige undergarment. Next to them are a spray bottle and another container. In the softly lit room, shelves with various items are visible, along with a decorative lamp silhouette. Natural light streams in from a window, creating soft shadows.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    dye imbibition print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Donald C. and P. Dee Kirkpatrick)

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 59.25 × 38.74 cm (23 5/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
    mount: 78.74 × 60.96 cm (31 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.4566.7

  • Portfolio Title

    Transformations

  • Copyright

    © Mariette Pathy Allen, National Gallery of Ar


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: ANDY BECOMING ANDI / 12/50; by unknown hand, bottom left: 8.2.90.8; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1997.12.g

Wikidata ID

Q64157743

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