Dancing Nudes by David Gerstein: "Dance for Peace", Framed

Three dancers, one dove, and nobody dressed for the occasion.

Dancing Nudes, framed, is a watercolor on paper titled "Dance For Peace", by David Gerstein, an Israeli artist born in 1944. The dove has served as a sign of peace across many cultures, and dance as one of art's oldest images of shared joy, so the pairing needs little explaining. Three full-figured nudes in fine ink line whirl across a soft wash of pink and yellow, one lifting the green dove overhead. Scarves trail between them. The image measures nineteen and a half by thirteen and a half inches, inside a gilt frame thirty-five and a half wide and thirty and a quarter high.

Peace, it seems, requires good balance.