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ATTILIO SALEMME Untitled.
Gouache, watercolor and pencil on card stock, circa 1950. 225x304 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection private collection, Chicago.
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.
