Untitled
Artist
Saul Steinberg
(American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999)
Date1972
MediumInk, charcoal, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, and rubber stamps on Canson Ingres
DimensionsImage and sheet: 19 5/8 × 25 1/2 inches (49.85 × 64.77 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Object number2019.49.13
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.
Recognizable objects such as a bottle of ink, a clock, and a ruler join scattered coins that appear to levitate above a tabletop. A note with Steinberg’s inscrutable invented writing is held in place by a paperweight. Th e lack of modeling renders the paperweight as fl at as the stamps in the lower center and upper right. Much like a seal lends an official air to a document, here these stamps seem to certify this drawing as an authentic record of Steinberg’s studio table
Copyright© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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