Live Auction 18549Post-War to Present
David Salle (b. 1952)
Lot 246

David Salle (b. 1952)

Cocoon

Closed5 March 2020

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USD 275,000

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David Salle (b. 1952)
Cocoon
signed, titled and dated 'David Salle Cocoon 1995' (on the reverse of the left element)
oil, acrylic and silkscreen ink on three joined canvases
overall: 72 x 96 ½ in. (182.9 x 245 cm.)
Executed in 1995.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 March 2015, lot 218
Skarstedt Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note


“A painting is like bricks and mortar. You don’t speak of the individual bricks in a cement wall. But the juxtaposition of the second image gives us the ability to remove the mortar and speak of the bricks."
— David Salle