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Salman Toor — Eleventh Street
Salman Toor

Eleventh Street

2018

A richly layered urban street scene set in New York City, depicting a young man walking a dog on a sidewalk as a seated figure in a green jacket reaches to pet the animal. The warm terracotta palette and Old Master-influenced brushwork evoke a contemporary take on figurative realism, with secondary figures browsing an outdoor book stall and a yellow taxi visible in the background. Salman Toor's signature style merges South Asian artistic tradition with queer, diasporic New York life, making this a particularly sought-after work from a pivotal early exhibition. The composition includes carefully observed street details — garbage bags, traffic cones, a discarded cup — anchoring the scene in lived urban experience.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions

Notes

Executed in 2018. Exhibited: New York, Aicon Gallery, 'Time After Time', October–December 2018. Sotheby's lot listing visible at sothebys.com. Literature section also referenced but content not visible in document.

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Salman Toor, Eleventh Street, 2018

A richly layered urban street scene set in New York City, depicting a young man walking a dog on a sidewalk as a seated figure in a green jacket reaches to pet the animal. The warm terracotta palette and Old Master-influenced brushwork evoke a contemporary take on figurative realism, with secondary figures browsing an outdoor book stall and a yellow taxi visible in the background. Salman Toor's signature style merges South Asian artistic tradition with queer, diasporic New York life, making this a particularly sought-after work from a pivotal early exhibition. The composition includes carefully observed street details — garbage bags, traffic cones, a discarded cup — anchoring the scene in lived urban experience.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
129.54 x 170.18 cm
Year
2018
Seen at
Aicon Gallery, New York, NY

Related themes

Intimate, Pakistani, Figures, Domestic Space, Interior, Modern, Warm Tones, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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Alex Capecelatro, Sarah Greenspan