Lot 694: Attilio Salemme

Attilio Salemme (American, 1911-1955), "Time of Inspection", c. 1944; watercolor and ink/paper, 8.5" x 12.5", dated and signed; label on verso with artist's address. Salemme had one-man exhibitions at the Passedoit Gallery, Saidenberg Gallery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, and the Duveen-Graham Gallery. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the De Cordova Museum. There was a large retrospective exhibit at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art in 1959.