Richard Saltoun Gallery
41 Dover Street, London W1S 4NS, United Kingdom
Via Margutta, 48a-48b, 00187 Rome, Italy
19 E 66th St, New York, NY 10065, United States
Presentation of the gallery
Founded in 2012 in London, Richard Saltoun Gallery specialises in Modern and Post-War art, guided by a strong focus on rediscovering the work of important yet under-recognised women artists through presentations at all its locations, online exhibitions, publications, events and participation in art fairs around the World. With three international locations, Dover Street in London, Via Margatta in Rome, and on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, the gallery provides an important hub for discussion, collaboration, and collecting.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents an exhibition spotlighting the Iranian-British artist, Samira ABBASSY (b. 1965). Her work draws on a unique visual language that merges European and Iranian-Persian artistic traditions, Christian iconography, Persian and Indian miniature painting, Chinese painting, and Qajar court painting. Deeply influenced by Jungian psychoanalysis and her matriarchal lineage, Abbassy’s practice navigates the intersection of the physical and metaphysical self, tracing connections between individual memory and collective history.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Rubin Museum, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, The Cincinnati Art Museum, and the 26th Venice Biennale.
Abbassy will be displayed alongside significant works by established and contemporary artists including, Anna Perach (b. 1985), Marcelo Benitez (1951 – 2022), Vèronique Filozof (1904 – 1977), Barbara Levittoux-Świderska (1933 – 2019) and Bertina Lopes (1924 – 2012).
![Marcelo BENITEZ, Las huestes del Leviatan [The Hosts of Leviathan], Ink and pencil on paper, 49.3 x 35.6 cm, 1978. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York, (c) The Estate of Marcelo Benitez.](https://www.drawingnowparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MBN004-image-scaled.jpg)
![Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA, A Composition with Wild Pear Tree Leaves [Kompozycja z liśćmi dzikiej gruszy], Collage on paper, 101 x 89 cm, 1997. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York, (c) The Estate of Barbara Levittoux-Świderska.](https://www.drawingnowparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BLE114-image.jpg)
![Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA, Peacock’s Tail [Pawi ogon], Collage on paper, 121 x 95 cm, 2002. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York, (c) The Estate of Barbara Levittoux-Świderska.](https://www.drawingnowparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BLE132-image.jpg)
![Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA, A Flashback from Mazur III [Wspomnienie z Mazur III], Watercolour on paper, 6.5 x 8.5 cm, Unknown. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, Rome and New York, (c) The Estate of Barbara Levittoux-Świderska.](https://www.drawingnowparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BLE371-image.jpg)
