Playing Cards (Six of Diamonds)
1990
This aquatint exemplifies Sultan's distinctive approach to transforming everyday objects into monumental subjects, elevating the humble playing card through his characteristic use of bold, simplified forms and rich tonal contrasts. The work demonstrates his mastery of the aquatint technique, creating deep, velvety blacks that define the diamond motifs against the textured Twinrocker paper.
- Medium
- Aquatint on Twinrocker paper
- Dimensions
- Edition
- Edition of 44 of 44
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Hamilton Selway, West Hollywood, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Hamilton SelwayView on map
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Jasper Johns
American · b. 1930
Johns similarly elevates mundane symbolic objects like numbers, targets, and flags into bold, graphic compositions using printmaking techniques that exploit rich tonal depth, creating a comparable tension between familiar imagery and monumental formal presence.
Jim Dine
American · b. 1935
Dine shares Sultan's dedication to transforming recognizable everyday objects into powerful graphic works through aquatint and intaglio printmaking, using deep velvety blacks and simplified bold forms that command the picture plane with similar visual weight.
Wayne Thiebaud
American · b. 1920
Thiebaud likewise elevates commonplace subjects into monumental, cleanly defined compositions that blur the boundary between Pop Art sensibility and formal minimalism, with a focus on geometric clarity and strong tonal contrast drawn from everyday American visual culture.
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