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Tennyson, 1983. Oil, acrylic on canvas with wooden and plaster relief. 78 x 117 x 5-1/2 inches. A ll images © David Salle/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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David Salle was born in Oklahoma but spent his formative youth in Wichita, Kansas. His parents were working class people of Russian Jewish heritage; Salle was among the second generation of his family to be born in America. As a young boy, he took life-drawing classes through a local art organization in Wichita. His interest in drawing and painting...
In 1970, Salle entered the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, north of Los Angeles. There, he studied under John Baldessari, whose paintings often dealt with altered photographic imagery. In a 2013 interview with his former teacher in Interview, Salle says, "He was my mentor when I was a student at CalArts in the early '70s, and it's fai...
In 1980, Salle was living and working in a converted loft space in the city's Tribeca neighborhood when he began to find success as an artist. Following his first solo show in New York City, he formed his association with noted gallery owner Mary Boone, who continues to represent him today. During this time, the painter expanded his practice to inc...
Salle eventually moved out of Tribeca to Long Island. He now lives and works in the coastal town of East Hampton, New York. Over the years, he has become a prolific writer on art, contributing to Artforum, The Paris Review, Town and Country, Interview, and a number of other publications. He has given a number of interviews in art publications as we...
Salle's creative endeavors as a painter, printmaker, and stage designer have played a significant role in shaping the sensibility of postmodern art, often mingling 'high' and 'low' art together on a single canvas and blending disparate images and styles into an innovative form of pastiche that speaks to the unique joys and frustrations of life in a...
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- September 28, 1952
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Mar 23, 1984 · In ''Tennyson,'' a found wooden relief of an ear is attached to the left side of a painting dominated by yet another naked woman. There is a word across the center of the painting, but it is not...
Artist: David Salle. (American, born 1952) Title: Tennyson. , 1983–1983. Medium: Oil on Canvas. Size: 198 x 298 x 14 cm. (78 x 117.3 x 5.5 in.) Edition: * Sale: * Estimate: * Price: * Bid Department: * Price Database. * Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 10 million auction results. PURCHASE ONE-DAY PASS.
Jun 4, 2010 · Twenty-five years on, David Salle’s paintings of the 1980s haven’t gotten any nicer. They still unsettle, still resist assimilation. The 10 here, made from 1980 to 1985, show a young artist...
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Mar 23, 2017 · David Salle: Tennyson, 78 x 117 x 5 1/2 inches, 1983 In an article on André Derain in How to See , his first collection of art writings, the painter David Salle says that, as “a former enfant terrible myself,” he has been drawn to the French artist’s story—that of a figure who was crucially a part of the beginnings of modern art and ...
Oct 4, 2017 · David Salle’s new paintings are crowded: The nine large canvases upstairs at the Skarstedt gallery on the Upper East Side are brimful of archetypal images from 1960s-era advertisements — cars...
