David Salle
David Salle makes large-scale paintings that arrange art historical and pop cultural references into enigmatic compositions. Salle has variously invoked 19th-century paintings, 1950s advertisements, graffiti, cartoons, and his own photographs. He often embraces widely different moods, styles, and sources within a single canvas, and his compositions can alternately invite and reject psychological, associative interpretations. Altogether, Salle’s sophisticated pastiches offer deadpan commentaries on contemporary life. The artist rose to prominence in the 1980s alongside a generation of painters, including Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, who were working in a new expressionist mode; yet he’s also associated with Pictures Generation artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Richard Prince, who rethink mass-media imagery and advertisements throughout their practices. Salle has exhibited around the world, and his canvases belong in the collections of the Albertina Museum, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate, and the Stedelijk Museum, among many others. On the secondary market, his work has commanded six-figure prices.
Hannah, Pink, 2015
Original lithograph from 28 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 55h x 42.25w in. Edition of 35. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Syrie, Turquoise, 2014
Original lithograph from 37 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 55h x 44.25w in. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Hannah, Violet, 2014
Original lithograph from 37 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 55h x 42.25w in. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Hannah, Gray, 2014
Original lithograph from 13 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould paper. 55h x 42.25w in. Edition of 35. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Claudia, Teal, 2018
Original lithograph from 67 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 55h x 42.25w in. Edition of 35. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Syrie, Gray, 2018
Original lithograph from 24 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 54.75h x 42.13w in. Edition of 35. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.
Syrie, Yellow, 2018
Original lithograph from 56 plates proofed and printed on a Steinmesse & Stollberg Dufa 813 flatbed proof press on Cartiera Magnani Revere Felt Standard White mould made paper. 54.75h x 42.13w in. Edition of 35. Published by Houston Fine Art Press.