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ATTILIO SALEMME Study for "Verge on the Wonderful".
Ink and gouache on paper, 1952. 215x280 mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto.
This work is a study for the 1953 oil Verge on the Wonderful.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Salemme (1911-1955) was born in Boston and joined the Marines at age 16 in 1927. After his military service, he intended to study science, but instead decided to become an artist while working as a framer in 1942 at the precursor to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Non-Objective Art, New York. Salemme died suddenly of a heart attack at age 44, after a short-lived but creatively inspired artistic career.
