Xavier F. Salomon (born 1979) is a British art critic and both Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection in New York.^[1]

Life

Born in Rome to an English mother and Danish father, he has British citizenship and is most notable for his expertise on Paolo Veronese.^[2] From April 2020 through July 2021,^[3] Salomon hosted an online program "Cocktails with a Curator"^[4] with Frick curators Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit. The program examined artworks at the Frick and had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube^[5] and are the basis of a book.^[6][7]

Works

• 2009 – Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece
• 2010 – Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
• 2012 – Van Dyck in Sicily: 1624–1625 Painting and the Plague
• 2014 – Goya and the Altamira Family
• 2014 – Veronese (catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London)
• 2016 – Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture
• 2016 – The Art of Guido Cagnacci
• 2017 – Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored
• 2017 – Murillo: The Self-Portraits (with Letizia Treves)
• 2018 – Holbein's Sir Thomas More (with Hilary Mantel)
• 2019 – Rembrandt's Polish Rider (with Maira Kalman)
• 2019 – David Bowie's Tintoretto: The Lost Church of San Geminiano (with Christina Currie)
• 2020 – Titian's Pietro Aretino (with Francine Prose)
• 2022 – Fragonard's Progress of Love (with Alan Hollinghurst)
• 2022 – Paolo Veneziano’s Coronation of the Virgin (with Nico Muhly)
• 2022 – Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Collection (with Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit)
• 2023 - Rosalba Carriera's Man in Pilgrim's Costume (with Nicolas Party)
• 2023 – Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
• 2023 – Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters (with Aimee Ng and Stephen Truax)