Backseat
2025
Backseat is an intaglio print by Salman Toor dated 2025, depicting two figures in a tender and intimate embrace rendered with expressive, gestural linework and a restrained palette of warm ochre and cool grey tones. The composition evokes vulnerability and closeness, characteristic of Toor's celebrated exploration of queer intimacy and human connection. This impression is an Artist Proof from an edition of 20, hand signed and dated by the artist in pencil below the plate. Artist Proofs represent some of the most desirable impressions available and offer collectors a rare entry point into Toor's printmaking practice.
- Medium
- Intaglio
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
Notes
Impression inscribed lower left: AP A/6. Signed and dated lower right by the artist: Salman Toor / 25. The edition size listed in the document is 20; this impression is an Artist Proof outside that numbered edition.
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Kiki Smith
American · b. 1954
Smith works extensively in intaglio and etching to depict intimate figurative subjects with gestural expressive linework and restrained tonal palettes, creating prints that share the same quiet vulnerability and emotional closeness found in Backseat.
Nan Goldin
American · b. 1953
Goldin has dedicated her career to documenting queer intimacy, tender embraces, and human connection with an unflinching sensitivity that parallels Toor's exploration of closeness and vulnerability between figures.
Nicole Eisenman
American · b. 1965
Eisenman creates expressionist figurative prints and paintings centered on queer bodies in intimate social settings, employing loose gestural mark making and warm to cool tonal contrasts that closely echo the mood and visual language of Backseat.
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