Clemente painted this portrait in March of 1997 while preparing for an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum, in Pittsburgh, when he realized that not a single portrait of Alba, his wife, has been included in the show. He paints on a large, double square canvas a monumental painting of Alba reclining in evening clothes, his largest to date. This begins a series of women's portraits in the same grand format.
        Alba appears in many of Clemente's paintings with himself, the two of them like twins, they look so much alike. 'She and She,' he calls one painting where they are two heads, one stacked on top of the other. There is love, passion, and a spiritual connection with Alba. The last photo in Clemente's large catalog from his major recent exhibition at the Guggenheim is of him, turned away from our view, with the large, simple letters ALBA shaved across the back of his head.