Decent Couple
Salman Toor's 'Decent Couple' combines oil and graphite on canvas to explore intimate human relationships and domestic themes.
- Medium
- oil and graphite on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
June 30, 2022
Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000
Lot 344
Collectors with works by Salman Toor
Artists in conversation
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
British · b. 1977
Yiadom-Boakye creates intimate figurative oil paintings of Black subjects in quiet, psychologically charged domestic and social settings, sharing Toor's warm palette and focus on interpersonal closeness and vulnerability.
Eric Fischl
American · b. 1948
Fischl's figurative oil paintings explore charged intimate relationships and domestic tension with a psychological depth and narrative ambiguity that closely mirrors the emotional undercurrent in Toor's depictions of couples.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Nigerian American · b. 1983
Akunyili Crosby's figurative works on canvas examine intimate domestic relationships and cultural identity with a similarly tender and personal sensibility, often depicting couples and close companions in interior settings.
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