Peter Saul

Peter Saul’s lurid caricatures of American excess and hypocrisy embraced figuration and Pop aesthetics at a time when Abstract Expressionism, color field canvases, and Minimalist aesthetics dominated American painting. Since the 1950s, Saul has painted exaggerated figures with hallucinatory color palettes and a cynical, darkly funny view of culture and politics. Targets of his satire have included American presidents, art historical compositions, and the Vietnam War. Saul studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis. He has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Geneva, Moscow, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. Saul’s work belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. At auction, his paintings have sold for six figures.