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SALMAN TOOR (B. 1983)
Lot 102

SALMAN TOOR (B. 1983)

The Toast

Closed14 May 2021

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USD 412,500

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SALMAN TOOR (B. 1983)
The Toast
oil on canvas
27 x 23 in. (68.6 x 58.4 cm.)
Painted in 2015.

Aicon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

Along the upper edge of The Toast, Salman Toor gracefully weaves in fragments of a punjabi Sufi song by the 18th-century mystic-poet Baba Bulleh Shah, titled Tere Ishq Nachaya (Your love made me dance), that loosely translates to:

Your love made me dance
Your love made me hostile
I took a sip from a bowl of poison
The sun has finally set

Fragments from the same poem are featured in other paintings from the artist's 2015 series.