Dance For Us is a piece in the Song of Songs series, crafted on paper to depict abstract figures dancing playing the drums.

Harriette Joffe is an American artist of this new century and the last. Her touchstone was the East End of Long Island during the formative years of 20th-century American Art. Less introspective than the European-born First Generation Abstract Expressionists who she knew and worked with, her coming of age after World War II allowed her work an exuberance that betrays her New World roots. Beyond that fact, no one owns her. After New York, she traveled extensively in the restless way of those born in the American Century: adventure under a beneficent Pax Americana. In New York she had rooted in and discovered iconoclasm and experimentation, performance and landscape. In Italy, France, and on the Iberian Peninsula she found the stubborn relevance of work done centuries ago. In New Mexico and other cultural colonies of Mexico’s El Norte she found landscape again; and, oddly, the still warm trail of Crypto-Judaism’s 15th-century European Diaspora: Magen David and Cross among the succulents. (It followed her back from Spain in her knapsack, that history, sticking in her paint brushes). More recently, she has discovered inspiration and renewal in the Massachusetts Berkshires, now following their downward flowing waters to the sea, back across the Sound to her Long Island upstart start. After 50 years of work, now in the second decade of the 21st century and the seventh decade of her life, she is still searching every day, making art with tools as old as Lascaux and ideas as fresh as her laptop.

Medium: Paper

Materials: Oil on Paper

Dimensions: 46 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches

Frame: Included

Condition: Excellent

Signature: Signed

Estelle. will issue a certificate of authenticity that will be sent alongside this piece.

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