David Salle - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Mary Boone Gallery, New York; Collection Leon Hecht and Robert Pincus-Witten, New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited


    Madrid, Sale de Exposiciones de la Fundación caja de Pensiones, September 27
    - November 13, 1988, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, December, 1988 -
    January, 1999, and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, February - April, 1989, David Salle

  • Literature


    R. Pincus-Witten, “David Salle: Sightatations (From the Theater of the Deaf
    to the Gericault Paintings),” Arts Magazine, October, 1986, p. 43 (illustrated) R. Pincus-
    Witten, “Entries: Karole Armitage and David Salle, Fates in Air,” Artscribe, November, 1987,
    p. 48 (illustrated); M. Corral, ed., David Salle, Madrid, 1988, cat. no. 12, pp. 88-89 (illustrated);
    M. Vaudey, “De l’ironie d’une rhetorique neuter, inquietante et Familiere: David Salle,”
    Artstudio, December, 1988, cover (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present Lot, Colony, 1986 by David Salle, uses the artist’s signaturepractice of overlaying and combining different images to evoke meaning inhis works.The view of the main figure in Colony, a female figure fully rendered in grey tones, is blocked by a Venetian landscape, a gigantic eye, afloating head and outlined figures of musicians.“The silences and pseudocontradictions, sudden vulgarities, and high-artquotations in Salle’s work are related to the elisions and discontinuities oflinguistic structures.We become aware of the brilliantly devised inventions,tremendous emotional energy, impatience, even anger, all of which at timesseem to desire a reformulation of the very nature of artmaking,” (J. Kardon,“The Old,The New, and The Different,” David Salle, Philadelphia, 1986).

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Colony

1986
Acrylic and oil on canvas (in two parts).
94 x 136 in. (238.8 x 345.4 cm).

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for $385,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York