Debra Paget

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A black and white studio portrait of a woman with light-colored hair, smoothed back and curled into a beehive hairstyle, standing in three-quarter profile facing the viewer. Her eyes are light and framed by dark upper and lower eye-liner, her eyebrows are thin arches, and her lips are full and dark. She is wearing a sleeveless dress with thin straps, covered in vertical stripes of beading, with some sparse beading in between. The bodice has a gently curved neckline. The skirt of the dress has a sash tied at the left hip with a sparkly, rounded brooch in the center that gathers the fabric into loose folds. The skirt also has a long slit that extends up the thigh. Behind the woman, on the wall, there is a decorative metal grill with a repetitive, heart-shaped design. The lighting casts a harsh, strong shadow to the right of the woman. In the lower left corner is a faint handwritten signature.