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The Black Dress
About a year ago, while browsing in my favorite card store, I discovered a postcard of Alex Katz’s “The Black Dress,” and thumbtacked it to the cork bulletin board beside my desk. Mr. Katz employed his beloved wife Ada as a model for the painting, which he created in 1960, almost a half century ago. I suppose some might consider this image, painted in loving tribute to the artist’s spouse, an odd inaugural emblem for “Notes from an Unmarried Life.” I find it a timeless representation of the ways we single women can be similar and different (while chic and fabulous) all at the same time.
(Check out a recent interview with Alex Katz, from Women’s Wear Daily.)
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I want this dress. A couple of inches shorter after I’ve done calf raises, but it is a classic. Bravo Mr. Katz.
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