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Tom Slaughter

Born : 1955Died : 2014

Tom Slaughter (1955–2014) built a visual vocabulary from New York and coastal Long Island: buildings, boats and familiar objects recur across drawings, paintings and cut paper. An illustrator of eleven children's books, he extended this practice through media reaching different audiences, from the pages of books to printed posters.

Flashe paint gave him matte, opaque surfaces on which the artist's touch yields to clearly defined shapes. Untitled (Country), made in 2006, uses this paint on cut paper. Color of Night II (1996), held by the Museum of Modern Art, represents his printmaking: Durham Press published and printed this screenprint, over a metre high, in an edition of fifty. Graphic simplification thus connects the individually painted object with the multiplied printed image.

This profile brings together identity references for Tom Slaughter and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

1auction house

1documented result with a price

Piguet

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Works recorded at auction

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Piguet

Hotel

Acrylic

Original catalogue wording

Hotel
acrylique

Catalogue period : 2019-11-29 — 2019-12-09

Published result : 430 CHF

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Estimate : CHF 300–500

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Sources and references

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Profile updated : 2026-10-23