David Salle

Untitled
1986

A monochromatic artwork featuring an abstract portrait of a face overlaid with expressive black lines and shapes. The background contains faint outlines of ears and other facial features, suggesting a theme of multiple overlapping faces or perspectives. The piece is numbered and signed by the artist in the lower margin.
A monochromatic artwork featuring an abstract portrait of a face overlaid with expressive black lines and shapes. The background contains faint outlines of ears and other facial features, suggesting a theme of multiple overlapping faces or perspectives. The piece is numbered and signed by the artist in the lower margin.

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Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint and etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 25 3/16 × 31 1/4in. (64 × 79.4 cm) Plate: 17 15/16 × 23 7/8in. (45.6 × 60.6 cm)

Accession number
86.14.7

Series
The Raphael

Edition
10/30

Publication
Printed by Aldo Crommelynck; published by Editions Maximilian Verlag-Sabine Knust

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Raymond J. Learsy and Robert Sosnick

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

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David Salle
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