Coming and Going

1987

David Salle

Associated Names
David Salle

Painter, American, born 1952

This appears to be a collage with several different images. At the top are four ovals with unique objects: a candle, a sculpted face, lightbulb-like objects, and an abstract form resembling a melted measuring cup. Below and to the left seems to be a grayscale photograph of people overlaid with blue floral outlines and the painted image of one colorful eye. To the right, a dark blue abstract form suggests a nude figure laying curled on their side next to a chair.
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery 403

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    acrylic and oil on photosensitized canvas

  • Credit Line

    Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall size (four joined panels): 243.84 × 339.41 cm (96 × 133 5/8 in.)
    framed: 249.6 x 343.5 x 7.3 cm (98 1/4 x 135 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.82.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1987 from the artist through (Mary Boone Gallery, New York) by Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 257.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 157, color repro.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 40.

Bibliography

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 157.

Wikidata ID

Q20197942

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