David Salle

Propeller
1987

This is an artwork featuring a central abstract form resembling a maroon-colored pin or bowling pin shape with a red circular opening at the top. Surrounding this form are various facial features drawn in a simplistic style, including blue eyes and eyebrows, and yellow and green outlines of eyes and lips. The background is off-white, and there are small black ink splatters near the central form. The bottom right corner contains a signature and the year '92, while the bottom left indicates the piece is numbered 38/75.
This is an artwork featuring a central abstract form resembling a maroon-colored pin or bowling pin shape with a red circular opening at the top. Surrounding this form are various facial features drawn in a simplistic style, including blue eyes and eyebrows, and yellow and green outlines of eyes and lips. The background is off-white, and there are small black ink splatters near the central form. The bottom right corner contains a signature and the year '92, while the bottom left indicates the piece is numbered 38/75.

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Date
1987

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet: 26 5/8 × 31 1/4in. (67.6 × 79.4 cm) Plate: 17 13/16 × 23 13/16in. (45.2 × 60.5 cm)

Accession number
2008.147

Series
The Brooklyn Academy of Music 125th Anniversary Portfolio

Edition
38/75 | 16 APs

Publication
Printed by Atelier Aldo Crommelynck, Paris; published by Parasol Press, Ltd.; published by Brooklyn Academy of Music

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Altria Group, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© David Salle / Licensed by VAGA by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/33569

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