David Salle (b. 1952)

The Flagrant Eyeball

Details

David Salle (b. 1952)
The Flagrant Eyeball
diptych—acrylic, charcoal and oil on canvas in artist's wax and wood frame
overall: 60 1/8 x 113 7/8 in. (152.7 x 289.2 cm.)
Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Marianne and Pierre Nahon, Vence
Their sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 18 July 2004, lot 229
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

P. Gardner, "Collecting Art of the Eighties," Contemporanea International Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3, September-October 1988, p. 58.

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“Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it’s structured, it can move backwards through time as well.”
-David Salle

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