Xavier Salomon

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.

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. From April 2020 through July 2021, he hosted an online program, "Cocktails with a Curator", with Frick curators Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit. The program examined artworks at the Frick and had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube and are the basis of a book.

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)