David Salle - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 7, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Skarstedt, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2015

  • Exhibited

    New York, Skarstedt, David Salle: New Paintings, 30 April-27 June 2015
    Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, David Salle: Inspired by true-life events, 16 September-4 December 2016

  • Literature

    Hunter Braithwaite, 'DAVID SALLE with Hunter Braithwaite', The Brooklyn Rail, 6 May 2015, online (illustrated)
    M. H. Miller, '‘It’s Not Nice to Kick the Dead, But In This One Case I Don’t Really Care’: An Hour With David Salle', ARTnews, 7 May 2015, online (illustrated)
    Peter Plagens, 'Romantic Abstracts, 'Product Paintings' and 3-D Pixels', The Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2015, online (illustrated)
    Allison Meier, 'Orchestrating Art', ART DESK Magazine, Issue 04, Summer 2015, online (illustrated)
    Juan Francisco Rueda, 'El tiempo de David Salle', ABC Cultural, 28 September 2016, online (illustrated)
    'A brush with Brooklyn painter David Salle', WeWork Ideas, 11 May 2015, online (illustrated)

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This is the Fun

signed, titled and dated '"THIS IS THE FUN" David Salle 2014-2015' on the reverse
oil, acrylic and archival digital print on linen collage on linen
178.1 x 244 cm (70 1/8 x 96 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2014-2015.

Estimate
£90,000 - 150,000 

Sold for £88,900

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 7 March 2025