Donald Sultan is a distinguished painter, sculptor, and printmaker who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement in New York City.
Sultan has a unique artistic method and innovative approach to traditional subject matter. Known as Abstract Representation, Sultan’s paintings, prints and other art are characterized by the use of geometric black forms set against organic areas of bright color, thus bringing an abstract sensibility to his iconographic images of still life. Throughout his career he has revisited and reinvented still life, using images of lemons, poppies, playing cards, fruits, flowers, and other objects. Sultan’s lemons, a recurrent theme in his artworks, have in fact become an iconic image all over the world.
“All of the images of those dark pictures are really about the architecture in the paintings; they seem so massive and strong and permanent, but nothing is permanent,” Sultan has said. “The image in the front is very fragile, but it conveys the loaded meaning of everything that is contained in the painting.”
Sultan is considered to be at the forefront of contemporary art. Although his paintings are often classified as landscapes and still lifes, Sultan states that they are first and foremost abstracts. Besides paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he has created many editions. Sultan’s prints are unique: he uses specific materials like “flocking” to create expressive and powerful prints that are reminiscent of his forceful paintings. Since his first solo exhibition in 1977, Sultan’s artistic career has progressed rapidly; his works are part of the most prominent public and private collections to be found across the globe.
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(Biography provided by Weng Contemporary — ArtXX AG)
Aqua Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Six Yellow Poppies, 2021
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and over printed flocking on Somerset 500 gsm Satin Radiant White with deckle edges. Edition of 60
Ink, Satin Paper
$1,200
Bugs serigraph from "Visual Poetics: The Art of Donald Sultan" signed & numbered
By Donald Sultan
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Serigraph from "Visual Poetics: The Art of Donald Sultan" framed under glass in natural wood frame. Initialed and numbered. Edition 112 of 395. Framed dimensions: 19 1/2 x 19 1/4 inc...
Screen
Mimosa with green, Nov 2, 2022
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Archival pigment ink print on 315 gsm fine art paper Edition 100
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Silver Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Gold Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Double Poppies Green
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board
Ink, Screen
Black Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Double Poppies White
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking and sand on Rising 4-ply museum board
Ink, Screen
BLACK LEMON ON SILVER, JULY 24 2018
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Enamel
White Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Blue and White, Feb 10, 2017
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board.
Enamel
Mimosa Sept 29, 2021
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on Rising 4-ply museum board Edition 40 of 40
Ink, Board
Six Black Poppies, 2021
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and over printed flocking on Somerset 500 gsm Satin Radiant White with deckle edges. Edition of 60
Ink, Satin Paper
Blue Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Red Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
LANTERN FLOWERS, BLACK AND BLUE
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on 4-ply museum board
Enamel
Yellow and White, Feb 10, 2017
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board.
Enamel
Pomegranates from Fruit and Flowers III
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil recto Image size is 12 x 12 inches, Framed size is 26 x 25 inches Published by Parasol Press
Screen
Pomegranates
By Donald Sultan
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Donald Sultan Pomegranates 1994 Screenprint 22 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. Edition of 125 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat in mylar for its protection. Frame: This work is framed floated in a wood frame with plexi glass. ABOUT THE WORK / ABOUT THE ARTIST: Donald Sultan is a contemporary painter best known for his use of industrial materials to depict everyday subjects. Sultan uses recurring imagery — mostly flowers, but also images such as fruits — to create colorful still lifes, combining a Minimalist aesthetic of few colors and geometric shapes. Sultan was born on May 5, 1952 in Asheville, NC and moved to New York in 1975, becoming a part of the New Image movement along with fellow painters Susan...
Screen
Acanthus from Fruit and Flowers III
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil recto Image size is 12 x 12 inches, Framed size is 26 x 25 inches Published by Parasol Press
Screen
Red and Black, Feb 10, 2017
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board. Edition 35/50. Sold as Lantern Flowers, Feb 10, 2017 suite of four prints for $11,500.
Enamel
Red and White, Feb 10, 2017
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board.
Enamel
Yellow Lantern Flowers 2025
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Color silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on Rising 2-ply museum board Portfolio of 8: $16,000
Ink, Board, Screen
Yellow and Black, Feb 10, 2017
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen in colors with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 2-ply museum board. Edition 35/50. Sold as Lantern Flowers, Feb 10, 2017 suite of four prints for $11,500.
Enamel
Price Upon Request
Blue Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Blue Poppies is an archival pigment print on fine art paper measuring 42 x 57 in. (107 x 145 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed in pencil, ti...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Yellow Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Yellow Poppies is an archival pigment print on fine art paper measuring 42 x 57 in. (107 x 145 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed in pencil, ...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Green Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Green Poppies is an archival pigment print on fine art paper measuring 42 x 57 in. (107 x 145 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed in pencil, t...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Red Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Red Poppies is an archival pigment print on fine art paper measuring 42 x 57 in. (107 x 145 cm), unframed. The artwork is hand-signed in pencil, tit...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Seven Silvers
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Seven Silvers is an original screenprint in colors with enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like texture on Rising 4-ply museum board. Measuring 58 x 58 ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Seven Blues
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2024, Seven Blues is an original screenprint in colors with enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like texture on Rising 4-ply museum board. Measuring 58 x 58 in...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Yellow and Silver Mimosa
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 2024, Yellow and Silver Mimosa is a beautiful screenprint in colors with enamel inks and sand on museum board. Measuring 22 x 22 in. (56 x 56 cm), unframed, ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Mimosa with Green
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2022, Mimosa with Green is an archival pigment print, hand-signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, the artwork measures 40 x 57 1/2 in. (102 x 146 ...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Red Poppies II
By Donald Sultan
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2007, Donald Sultan color screenprint Red Poppies II, 2007 with flocking on museum board is hand-signed by Donald Sultan (North Carolina, 1951 - ) in pencil in the left margin and is numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil in the lower right margin. About the Framing: Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Donald Sultan Red Poppies...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Black and Red, April 25
By Donald Sultan
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2007, this Donald Sultan color screenprint Black and Red, April 25, 2007 with flocking on museum board is hand-signed by Donald Sultan (North Carolina, 1951 - ) in pencil in the left margin and is numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil in the lower right margin. Published by Lococo Fine Art, MO. About the Framing: Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Donald Sultan Black...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Mimosa (Green)
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Donald Sultan in 2023, Mimosa (Green) is an archival pigment print, hand-signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil. The artwork measures 42 x 52 inches (107 x 132 cm)...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Six Yellows
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 2002, Six Yellows is a screenprint in colors with flocking on wove paper. Hand-signed, titled, dated, and designated as "BAT 1/2" from the edition of 60 + 2 ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
White Mimosa
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
A study in delicate beauty created as a textured, color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2021, White Mimosa is hand-signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, the artwork measurin...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Yellow Lanterns
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint, Yellow Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 in. (81 x 81 cm.), un...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Red Lanterns
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint, Red Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 in. (81 x 81 cm.), unframed...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Blue Lanterns
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2017, Blue Lanterns is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 32 x 32 ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Red Flowers
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Created as a textured color screenprint by Donald Sultan in 2012, Red Flowers is hand-signed, titled, dated and numbered, the artwork measuring 41 x 77 in. ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Lilies
By Donald Sultan
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Lilies , 1998 Silkscreen Framed Dimensions: 32 x 26 1/2 inches (81.3 x 67.3 cm) Sheet: 16.5 x 15.5 inches (41.9 x 39.4 cm) Edition 36/70
Screen
Price Upon Request
Silver Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Large, bold and stunningly beautiful – Silver Poppies, by Donald Sultan is a stunning screenprint on museum board, the artwork monogrammed, titled, date...
Screen
Price Upon Request
Red Poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
Large, bold and stunningly beautiful – Red Poppies, by Donald Sultan is a stunning screenprint on museum board, the artwork monogrammed, titled, dated and ...
Screen
Price Upon Request
One of Diamond and Thirteen of Diamonds
By Donald Sultan
Located in Missouri, MO
"One of Diamonds and Thirteen of Diamonds" (from Playing Cards) 1990 Aquatint Engravings Framed Together Each Signed, Titled and Dated Each Numbered Lower ...
Engraving, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Lantern Flowers, May 10, 2012 (White), Donald Sultan
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
This silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on 2-ply museum board was created by the artist in 2012. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 50.
Screen
Price Upon Request
Eight Poppies, Donald Sultan
By Donald Sultan
Located in New York, NY
An original screenprint of unparralleled beauty, Eight Poppies was created by the artist in 2010 and it has since become a signature image, highly collectible. Signed, dated and num...
Screen