Peter Saul with Irving Sandler

Esteemed by conceptual and performance artists, including Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy and many others of a younger generation, Peter Saul, in his insistence on autonomy, has sustained a vision rather than succumb to what is considered fashionable in the center of the art world. On the occasion of his recent survey Fifty Years of Painting, at Haunch of Venison Gallery (November 5, 2010

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