MARILYN ALLONGÉE Acrylic on Canvas | 40" × 56" | 2025

She is not performing. For once, she is simply being.

Marilyn Allongée — Marilyn, reclined — catches the most famous woman of the twentieth century in a moment of rare stillness. Draped in a gown of deep, voluptuous red against a ground of warm gold and cream, her black gloves trailing, her eyes closed, her lips their inevitable red — she has stopped for a moment. Stopped performing. Stopped being looked at in the way she was always being looked at.

And yet here we are, looking.

The painting holds that tension with complete honesty. This is not the Marilyn of the subway grate or the calendar or the screen test. This is something quieter and considerably more complex — a woman of extraordinary beauty and extraordinary sadness, painted at monumental scale with the expressive, layered brushwork that transforms biography into pure feeling.

The palette is all warmth and drama — golden yellow, deep crimson, the cool white of her dress against the heat of everything surrounding it. Gold leaf catches the light in the hair, in the shadows, in the places where glamour and melancholy meet and become indistinguishable from each other.

Marilyn Allongée is a significant work. One of the most ambitious figurative paintings in the Decorum Atelier collection. The kind of piece that arrives on a wall and immediately becomes the only thing in the room.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 40" × 56" original acrylic on canvas
• Signed and dated 2025
• Ships carefully rolled in a professional tube
• Upon arrival we recommend professional stretching and framing
• Prefer it shipped pre-stretched? Contact us before purchasing for a shipping quote at cost
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. She has stopped performing. Just this once.