The most graphically bold portrait in the entire large-format series — a figure in left profile against a deep plum or dark burgundy ground, the figure itself rendered entirely in pink watercolor and black ink. The upswept hair is described with bold flowing ink strokes over pink wash; the face in left profile shows the nose, the lips, the chin in a few decisive marks; the clothing below is a deep pink, the visible shoulder and collar described with broad ink lines. The sunglasses — cat-eye or horn-rimmed frames at the face — are the most socially specific detail: this is a person in public, sunglasses on, presenting themselves.
The dark plum ground is the most saturated and most dramatically dark background in the collection — darker than the scratchboard's black (1591), darker than the pastel self-portrait's dark background (1597), a deep red-violet that makes the pink figure glow against it. The chromatic relationship — pink on plum — creates an intense contrast that gives the portrait a quality of graphic power: it could be a poster, a fashion illustration, an album cover.
The sunglasses in profile — the dark cat-eye frames at the left side of the face, the bridge crossing the nose — are drawn with the specificity of a particular pair of glasses observed at a particular moment. Among all the portraits in the collection, this is the one most embedded in a specific social moment: a woman in sunglasses, in public, looking away from the viewer with the confidence of someone who knows they are seen.