Artist: Donald Sultan (American, born 1951) Title: Pears Year: 1991 Medium: Color silkscreen and lithograph Edition: Numbered 31/125 in pencil Paper: Arches 88 Image size: 12 x 12 inches paper Size: 22 x 23 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Publisher: Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon. Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed Description: From the suite, Fruits Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose to prominence in the electrified atmosphere of New York's downtown renaissance in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement. Sultan's imagery was simultaneously abstract and representational, and as he was exploring the boundary between the abstract and the everyday, he moved from the industrial subjects to the natural world, creating paintings and drawings of fruits and flowers – lemons and tulips, pomegranates and poppies.