Fag Puddle in Vitrine

Maker

Salman Toor (artist)
born 1983

Title

Date of Production

2021

Accession Number

D.2024.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

purchase, 2024

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Acquired with support from The Garcia Family Foundation, 2024.

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

This drawing features a recurrent motif the artist affectionately calls ‘fag puddles,’ still-lives of dismembered bodies seemingly melting into one another (a similar work is Fag Puddle with Candle, Shoe, and Flag, Metropolitan Museum, inv. no. 2023.80). In this work, what may initially appear to be an intimate scene of lovers’ intertwining limbs, becomes almost grotesque as a disconnected hand with painted nails drapes over the left head, and a leg wraps around the puddle of limbs, the foot emerging through the foregrounded bent arm. Regardless of their current state, the faces express a certain ease, as if accustomed to having their sublime discomfort on full display, their bodies contorted into an anatomically impossible embrace.

Provenance

the artist; purchased through Luhring Augustine, New York by the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2024

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