The Artworks of Phyllis Kluger
Nouveaux Egos

NOUVEAUX EGOS

Posed prettily here is the quintessential couple among the glitterati of the glamour-craving 1980s, newly affluent, preoccupied with status, and hopelessly self-absorbed (see wallpaper background in detail below).  They appear resplendently chic in this formal double portrait.  Any resemblance to a certain brash New York realtor-turned-politician and his then-wife is coincidental.
43 X 45 inches, machine pieced, hand quilted, appliqué, embellished