View of San Francisco, Number 2

Peter Saul is an American painter known for aggressive, densely layered figuration that combines carnival grotesquerie with political satire. Working in acrylic and oil since the 1960s, he developed a maximalist approach to the canvas, filling pictorial space with writhing forms, garish color, and deliberately crude distortions of anatomy and proportion. His work emerged within postwar American painting but resists the period's dominant abstraction, instead pursuing a deliberately vulgar and confrontational figuration rooted in comic art and low culture. Saul's paintings function as visual polemics, channeling rage and absurdity into formally expansive, visually overwhelming compositions.

San Francisco, CA, USA