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David Salle Colony 1986 Acrylic and oil on canvas (in two parts). 94 x 136 in. (238.8 x 345.4 cm).
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). Read More