05/29/2026
Newly available from Maune Contemporary: Donald Sultan’s “Five Objects” series.
Created in 1999, “Five Objects” comprises four 12-color silkscreens with 22k gold leaf, each measuring 21 × 20 inches and produced in an edition of 60. The series includes “Five Objects, Sept 10, 1999,” “Five Objects, Sept 12, 1999,” “Five Objects, Sept 15, 1999,” and “Five Objects, Sept 18, 1999.”
Across the series, Sultan revisits the still life through bold silhouette, saturated color, and a distinctly contemporary graphic language. In the 1980s and 1990s, he became closely associated with a renewed interest in figuration, drawing from Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, and minimalism while reducing familiar subjects to striking, stylized forms.
“Five Objects” relates closely to Sultan’s painting “Five Objects, Aug 10, 1999,” a work that served as an important reference for the print series completed that same year. Through gold leaf, flat color, and simplified form, Sultan transforms the traditional still life into a luminous study of object, space, and ornament.
Donald Sultan’s “Five Objects” series is now available through the link in our bio and via Artsy.
Donald Sultan ()
“Five Objects,” 1999
12-color silkscreens with 22k gold leaf
21 × 20 inches (53 × 51 cm)
Editions of 60