David Salle - Modern & Contemporary Art New York Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | Phillips
  • “...the red brush strokes of course, are a mob scene. But it’s a well-mannered mob scene.”
    —David Salle

    • Provenance

      Mary Boone Gallery, New York
      Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Washington, D.C.
      Gagosian Gallery, New York
      Private Collection, Illinois (acquired in 1993)
      Private Collection, Connecticut
      Rago Auctions, Lambertville, May 4, 2019, lot 722
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      New York, Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, David Salle, April 25–May 25, 1985, no. 2, n.p. (illustrated)

    • Literature

      Georgia Marsh, “Interview: David Salle,” BOMB Magazine, Issue 13, October 1, 1985, pp. 20, 22-23 (illustrated, p. 23)
      Roni Feinstein, “David Salle’s Art in 1985: Dead or Alive?,” Arts Magazine, 1985, p. 88
      Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "David Salle: Our Subjectivity,” Kunstforum International, vol. 83, 1986, online (illustrated)
      Peter Schjeldahl, Salle, New York, 1987, pp. 14-15 (illustrated)
      Mark C. Taylor, Nots, Chicago and London, 1993, fig. 23, pp. 175, 177 (illustrated, p. 177)

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Pauper

signed, titled and dated ""PAUPER" David Salle 1984" on the overlap of the left canvas
acrylic and lead on canvas, diptych
84 x 106 in. (213.4 x 269.2 cm)
Executed in 1984.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $76,200

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Modern & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 17 July 2024