Diabolical Life Restoring Machines
Artist
David Salle
(American, born 1952)
Date1987
MediumPaper, acrylic, oil, ceramic fixtures and light bulbs on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 76 1/2 × 149 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (194.31 × 380.37 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation
Object numberF98-5
Signedunsigned
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThree separate canvases united to form one painting. Larger left panel is painted/stained dark grey. Inset at left is small painting of a dog (brown and white spaniel) lying down. To the right of this is a seated madonna and child image. Immediately to the right of this is a yellow/orange cantelope with one wedge removed. Right-adjacent to this canvas is another unprimed canvas. A large sheet of paper bearing a photographic image of two women and a man in a boat-like vessel resembling an amusement park ride is glued onto the canvas surface. Several overlapping images of partially-clad women with splayed legs are contour-drawn in black paint on the paper. Overlapping also is a device/wheelchair-like image and a head with long hair contour-drawn in white. At center of right canvas is an orange rectangle with three green images of gesturing hands. Below the photo-montaged section are three white, ceramic electrical sockets containing blue lightbulbs.Exhibition Historyde-PERSONA, The Oakland Museum of California, May 18-September
22, 1991, unnumbered.
With Mary Boone Gallery, New York;
Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Santa Clarita, CA, by 1998;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1998.
de-PERSONA, exh.cat. (Oakland: The Oakland Museum of
California, 1991), 14, 15, 70-71, (repro.).
CopyrightThis work is copyrighted. Contact VAGA, New York, New York
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