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ROLAND REISS The Dancing Lessons: Sympathetic Forces.
Mixed-media diorama in a Lucite case, 1977. 355x610x610 mm; 14x24x24 inches (excluding base). Signed and titled in pencil, lower edge.
From Reiss' (b. 1929) The Dancing Lessons series. The present work is a comment on parents living vicariously through their children who are forced to perform. Reiss' daughter was a professional dancer.
Ex-collection private collection, New York.
Exhibited "Roland Reiss: The Dancing Lessons / 12 Sculptures," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, May 24-July 3, 1977, number 9.
Published Betty Ann Brown, "Roland Reiss, Art & Life," Roland Reiss: A Seventeen Year Survey, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1991, page 17; Mike McGee, Roland Reiss: Painting & Sculpture, Grand Central Press, New York, 2014, page 75 (illustrated).
