Save the Last Dance for Me, 1979
Mary Heilmann (Born 1940 in San Francisco, California; lives in New York, New York)
Mary Heilmann’s painting Save the Last Dance for Me, made in 1979, presents three pink rectangles that dance in a seductive blackness suggestive of a 24-hour nightclub - or perhaps the three are actually one pink rectangle seen in a blissfully formal time lapse that simultaneously evokes the 1950s of her youth, the late-1970s landfall of New Wave style and the ‘last dance’ of painting that may never happen. MH: Save The Last Dance For Me was about falling in love, and a premonition of the future. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11132
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