Marilyn Allongé
40” x 56”
Acrylic & collage on canvas
2025
Marilyn Allongé is a lush and provocative reimagining of Hollywood’s most enigmatic icon, frozen in a moment of languid allure and latent power. Draped in a crimson cocktail dress that clings like a second skin, Monroe's body becomes both a spectacle and a cipher—her ample décolletage spilling forth as if defying containment, her gaze at once inviting and inscrutable. In one satin-gloved hand, she clutches a single playing card, a quiet but potent symbol of the high-stakes game she once played with power and secrecy. The King, unseen yet omnipresent, looms in the subtext—an allusion to her fabled entanglement with JFK and the spectral weight of their parallel tragedies. Price’s acrylic mastery imbues the canvas with a rich, cinematic sheen, evoking the chiaroscuro of noir cinema and the fevered intensity of mid-century pop culture’s eroticized mystique. Marilyn Allongé is not just a portrait; it is an invocation—Monroe as a figure of both seduction and subjugation, her image stretched between desire, danger, and the dark corridors of history.
40” x 56”
Acrylic & collage on canvas
2025
Marilyn Allongé is a lush and provocative reimagining of Hollywood’s most enigmatic icon, frozen in a moment of languid allure and latent power. Draped in a crimson cocktail dress that clings like a second skin, Monroe's body becomes both a spectacle and a cipher—her ample décolletage spilling forth as if defying containment, her gaze at once inviting and inscrutable. In one satin-gloved hand, she clutches a single playing card, a quiet but potent symbol of the high-stakes game she once played with power and secrecy. The King, unseen yet omnipresent, looms in the subtext—an allusion to her fabled entanglement with JFK and the spectral weight of their parallel tragedies. Price’s acrylic mastery imbues the canvas with a rich, cinematic sheen, evoking the chiaroscuro of noir cinema and the fevered intensity of mid-century pop culture’s eroticized mystique. Marilyn Allongé is not just a portrait; it is an invocation—Monroe as a figure of both seduction and subjugation, her image stretched between desire, danger, and the dark corridors of history.
40” x 56”
Acrylic & collage on canvas
2025
Marilyn Allongé is a lush and provocative reimagining of Hollywood’s most enigmatic icon, frozen in a moment of languid allure and latent power. Draped in a crimson cocktail dress that clings like a second skin, Monroe's body becomes both a spectacle and a cipher—her ample décolletage spilling forth as if defying containment, her gaze at once inviting and inscrutable. In one satin-gloved hand, she clutches a single playing card, a quiet but potent symbol of the high-stakes game she once played with power and secrecy. The King, unseen yet omnipresent, looms in the subtext—an allusion to her fabled entanglement with JFK and the spectral weight of their parallel tragedies. Price’s acrylic mastery imbues the canvas with a rich, cinematic sheen, evoking the chiaroscuro of noir cinema and the fevered intensity of mid-century pop culture’s eroticized mystique. Marilyn Allongé is not just a portrait; it is an invocation—Monroe as a figure of both seduction and subjugation, her image stretched between desire, danger, and the dark corridors of history.