Donald Sultan — Poppies For Sale

Poppies | Donald Sultan | Guy Hepner, New York

Market Performance

Donald Sultan's Poppies series is his most celebrated and commercially active body of work. The Double Poppies editions — available in Aqua, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and White colourways — regularly achieve US$12,000–13,000 per work at auction. The Four Poppies series (Blue, Green, Red, Yellow) has achieved US$12,900–18,750 at Christie's and Phillips. Individual works such as Aqua Poppies have achieved US$10,625. The Poppies Portfolio, Sept 7 & Aug 17 has achieved US$2,560 at auction.

About the Series

Donald Sultan's Poppies series represents his most sustained and formally powerful engagement with botanical subject matter. The poppy — historically associated with sleep, death, and remembrance — becomes in Sultan's hands a monumental presence: bold, graphic forms rendered in lush blacks, reds, blues, and greens against stark backgrounds.

The series spans decades and encompasses works on paper, silkscreens, and paintings, each exploring the flower's seductive symmetry and symbolic weight. Working with his characteristic tar-inflected palette and the material weight of his industrial process, Sultan transforms a familiar subject into something simultaneously decorative and ominous, beautiful and weighted with mortality.

Available in multiple configurations — single poppies, double poppies, four poppies, and portfolio sets — the series offers collectors entry at a range of price points while maintaining consistent secondary market support.

Guy Hepner maintains inventory across the Poppies series. Contact us for current availability and pricing.