woman with long red hair leaning forward on her elbows on a maroon surface, holding a scissors with orange handles in her PR hand and resting her PL hand on the side of her head; background is magenta; grey linear drawings of people superimposed over portrait of woman

%C2%A9 David Salle %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York

Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub, 1988

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This layered image in which we see both a close-up of a woman holding a pair of scissors and a broader view of a bar interior is typical of the compositions of David Salle. The double-exposure effect prompts us to contend with two reactions at once—one to a confrontational image and one to an image where we have to tease out the subject and any narrative. Salle made this color woodcut in conjunction with a team of Japanese woodcut craftsmen who were brought together in 1982 by publisher Crown Point Press for the purpose of collaborating with artists from the Western tradition.

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Details
Title
Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub
Artist Life
1936 - 2000
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.93.1
Provenance
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, Calif. (publisher); [Douglas Flanders & Associates,Minneapolis]; given to MIA, 2018.
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woman with long red hair leaning forward on her elbows on a maroon surface, holding a scissors with orange handles in her PR hand and resting her PL hand on the side of her head; background is magenta; grey linear drawings of people superimposed over portrait of woman

© David Salle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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