313. Dancing the Night Away

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Title: Dancing the Night Away (working title)
Date: 1973
Subject: Dancing
Measurements: 7 7/8” W x 5 ¾” H
Materials and Techniques: White paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, mounted and placed in a frame.
Description: A naked woman (Dance I, 1909, Henri Matisse, French, Le Cateau-Cambresis, 1869-1954 Nice, The Museum of Modern Art) and a naked man (Christ on the Cross, ca. 1600-1610, El Greco, Greek, Iráklion 1540/41-1614 Toledo, The J. Paul Getty Museum) dance together in a waltz as a seated woman (Two Women Holding Flowers, 1954, Fernand Leger, French, Argentan 1881-1955 Gif-sur-Yvette, Tate) in the foreground plays music on her guitar (1933 (guitar), 1933, Ben Nicholson OM, English, 1894-1982, Tate).
Signed: “Norman S. Green 1973” written in pen on bottom right corner
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. Since the piece is framed, we do not know if the figures in the piece are identified on a back label.