Untitled
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Date1969
MediumInk, pencil and rubber stamps on J. F. Head handmade laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 20 3/4 × 25 inches (52.71 × 63.5 cm)
Image: 19 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (49.85 × 59.69 cm)
Image: 19 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (49.85 × 59.69 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.12
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History"A Way of Reasoning on Paper," The Art of Saul Steinberg, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. April 18 - December 3, 2023.
The fun Steinberg must have had while drawing radiates from a piece like this. Lines of various types—straight, curved, ruled, cross-hatched, thick, and thin—combine with multiple sorts of rubber stamps—arches, solid circles, and those impersonating ocial seals and insignia. Together with the purposefully uncrackable code of his caption-like inscriptions, what could this drawing mean? As much as we may wish to know, Steinberg might reply, “Every explanation is over-explanation.”
Copyright© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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