Portraits
STEVE SALO
Portraits (2019)
Steve Salo’s exhibition Portraits is a contemporary reimagining of works by master painters. It features portraits of artists, a series of postcard-size works and about 20 portraits on spoons that pay homage to revered artists and paintings.
Metropolis Gallery, Australia
7-28 November 2019
A selection of the works follows below.
Above: Oil on spoons, 4.5 cm diameter
1. ‘Self-portrait 2’ SOLD
2. ‘Frida Kahlo’ SOLD
3. ‘Whistler’s Mother’ after Whistler SOLD
4. ‘Venus’ – after Sandro Botticelli ‘Birth of Venus’ SOLD
5. ‘Girl At The Bar’ after Edouard Manet ‘A Bar At The Folies-Berge’ SOLD
6. ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring – after Johannes Vermeer SOLD
7. ‘Salvador Dali’ SOLD
8. ‘Lucian Freud’ SOLD
9. ‘Woman’ – after Amedeo Modigliani ‘Portrait of a Woman’ SOLD
1. ‘Self-portrait 2’ SOLD
2. ‘Frida Kahlo’ SOLD
3. ‘Whistler’s Mother’ after Whistler SOLD
4. ‘Venus’ – after Sandro Botticelli ‘Birth of Venus’ SOLD
5. ‘Girl At The Bar’ after Edouard Manet ‘A Bar At The Folies-Berge’ SOLD
6. ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring – after Johannes Vermeer SOLD
7. ‘Salvador Dali’ SOLD
8. ‘Lucian Freud’ SOLD
9. ‘Woman’ – after Amedeo Modigliani ‘Portrait of a Woman’ SOLD
Above, small works in oil, 10 x 15 cm
1. ‘Head Honcho’ – after Franz Xaver Winterhalter ’Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico’ SOLD
2. ‘Lady Manners’ – after Allan Ramsay ‘Lady Robert Manners’ SOLD
3. ‘Marc Chagall’ SOLD
4. ‘Musical Creature’ – after Francesco Hayez ’Portrait of the Singer Matilde Juva Branca’. Artist’s collection
5. ‘The Uniformed’ – after Francisco de Goya ’The Duke of Wellington’. SOLD
6. ‘Francis Bacon’ SOLD
7. ‘The Betrothed’ – after Franz Xaver Winterhalter ’Carmen Aguado , Future Duchess of Montmorency’. SOLD
8. ‘Enigma’. Unavailable (gift)
1. ‘Head Honcho’ – after Franz Xaver Winterhalter ’Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico’ SOLD
2. ‘Lady Manners’ – after Allan Ramsay ‘Lady Robert Manners’ SOLD
3. ‘Marc Chagall’ SOLD
4. ‘Musical Creature’ – after Francesco Hayez ’Portrait of the Singer Matilde Juva Branca’. Artist’s collection
5. ‘The Uniformed’ – after Francisco de Goya ’The Duke of Wellington’. SOLD
6. ‘Francis Bacon’ SOLD
7. ‘The Betrothed’ – after Franz Xaver Winterhalter ’Carmen Aguado , Future Duchess of Montmorency’. SOLD
8. ‘Enigma’. Unavailable (gift)
Steve Salo ‘Self Portrait – Chaos Within’, oil on canvas, 64 x 56 cm