DONALD SULTAN (b. 1951),

'Red Poppies, April 25, 2007', 2007

SIGNED Framed Silkscreen Print

Professionally framed color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board. Framed and matted in an angled walnut stained ebony all wood frame with plexiglass. Dimensions: Frame: 34" x 34" x 1-1/2" (86.5 x 86.5 x 4 cm); Print: 24" x 24" (61 x 61 cm) sheet, 22" x 22" (56 x 56 cm) image. Edition of 75. SIGNED, titled 'Red Poppies' and dated 'April 25, 2007' by the artist in pencil (vertically along left margin), numbered 'HC 2/5' (lower right), outside the regular edition of 75, with the artist and publisher stamp. The centers of the flowers and background are black flocked and the background is then over-printed with three passes of black enamel ink. Excellent / NEW condition with no visible defects.

Red Poppies, April 25, 2007 is a print belonging to Donald Sultan's famous Flower series. The artist is credited for the revival of the still life tradition where the image is deconstructed to the basic elements, thus Sultan's work remains both abstract and representational.

Akin to Sultan's paintings this work represents the deep red poppies set against black background. The image reveals one of the key features of Sultan's work - the material juxtaposition- the contrast of a weighty background with ethereal shapes of the flowers. The printing technique translates the Sultan's original paintings’ texture: linoleum, tar, flocking, plaster, tile, wood.

Born in 1951, Donald Sultan was one of the most significant artists to emerge in the 1980's. Sultan uses traditional subject matter such as the landscape, cityscape and still life to create works that are bold and new. His pictures make strong, immediate visual statements. Often his colors, shapes and patterns contain ambiguity, where a lemon could be a person's eye or street lamps and smokestacks could look like the long stems of flowers. A highly collected artist, Sultan received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. He currently lives in New York.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
'Donald Sultan: Recent Works', Galerie Andreas Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland (3/28 - 7/11)
'Donald Sultan: New Mimosa Paintings', McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (3/19 - 4/25)

2025
'Donald Sultan: Drawings', Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
'Donald Sultan', Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Donald Sultan: Flowers & Forms', Rosenbaum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
'From Painting to Print: The Poppies, Mimosas, and Lantern Flowers of Donald Sultan', American University Museum, Washington, DC
'Donald Sultan: Four Big Poppies', Galerie Frank Fluegel, Nuremberg, Germany
'New and Recent Works by Donald Sultan', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2024
'Donald Sultan: Love Letters', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: New Works', McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
'Donald Sultan: Beyond the Surface', Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art (LRMA), St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs, FL

2023
'Framing Nature’s Paradox: Neil Jenney & Donald Sultan, 1969-2023', Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
'Donald Sultan: Recent Work: Mimosas', Galerie Andres Thalmann Paris, Paris, France
'Donald Sultan: Wallflowers', Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2022
'Donald Sultan: The Nature of Things', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: Wallflowers', HOHMANN FINE ART, Palm Springs, CA
'Donald Sultan: Iconic Florals', Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2021
'Donald Sultan: Prints', Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Donald Sultan: New and Recent Flowers', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan: Day and Night: New Paintings and Drawings', Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
'Donald Sultan: New Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2020
'Donald Sultan: Black and White and Color New Works', Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland
'New York in Living Color: Featuring Donald Sultan', Maune Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2019
'Donald Sultan: Dark Objects Works 1977-2019', Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK
'Donald Sultan: Mimosa, PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS', RYAN LEE, New York, NY

2018
'Donald Sultan: Poppies & Lemons', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

2017
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (MAMFW), Fort Worth, TX
'Donald Sultan: Button Down Modernism', Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2016
'Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings', Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
'Donald Sultan: Recent Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2015
'Donald Sultan',Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela
'Donald Sultan', Galerie Forsblom, Helinski, Finland

2014
'Donald Sultan: Artiface', Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: A Decade of Paintings and Drawings', Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Donald Sultan', Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
'Donald Sultan: Recent Work', Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2013
'Donald Sultan: Echos', Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France

2012
'Donald Sultan', The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
'Donald Sultan: Flower Series', Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA

2011
'New Acquisitions: Collection of works by Frank Stella and Donald Sultan', Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
'Donald Sultan: New Works', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 
'Donald Sultan', Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX 
'Donald Sultan - Soot and Shine: New Works', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

2009
'Donald Sultan: Recent Works on Paper', Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Donald Sultan: The First Decade', Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH
'Donald Sultan: Wallflowers: Gouaches, Paintings and Multiples', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

2008
'Donald Sultan: Works on Paper', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Donald Sultan: Small Paintings and Works on Paper', Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2007
'Landscape: Form & Thought' (group exhibition), Waqas Wajahat Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan', Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
'Donald Sultan: Colors, Smoke and War', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

2006
'Donald Sultan and Neil Jenney: The Art Bar', Waqas Wajahat Gallery, New York, NY
'Donald Sultan: Recent Works', Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2005
'Donald Sultan: 1991 - 2005', curated by Scott White Contemporary Art, The Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Yountville, CA
'Donald Sultan: New Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2004
'Donald Sultan: New Poppy Paintings', Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, NY
'Donald Sultan', Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2003
'Poppies, Oranges & Mimosas: New Prints and Drawings', Mary Ryan Gallery, NY

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