Diploma

1954

Saul Steinberg

Associated Names
Saul Steinberg

Artist, American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999

This is a drawing of an ornate script document with decorative elements. The drawing features a document with calligraphy and artistic embellishments. The composition includes an abstract motif at the top resembling figures and possible floral patterns, lines of elegant script unfolding down the page, and scattered lines and loops resembling signatures of different styles and sizes. Additional decorative elements include ornamental designs at the top and lower portions of the document.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with painted relief on Strathmore paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 73.34 × 58.74 cm (28 7/8 × 23 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.143.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift to NGA in 2016 from The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York, NY.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2011

  • Saul Steinberg: As aventuras da linha, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, 28 May - 21 August 2011; Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, 2 September - 6 November 2011

Bibliography

2011

  • Saul Steinberg: As aventuras da linha. Exh. cat., Instituto Moreira Salles , Rio de Janeiro; Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, 2011: pl. 145

Inscriptions

in graphite, lower right [erased]: 44%; in graphite, upper center verso: Diploma [underlined] / 54 [crossed out in red colored pencil]; in graphite, lower left verso: 1356

Markings

blind stamp: STRATHMORE / USE EITHER SIDE [in circle]; stamped on verso in black: SAUL STEINBERG / 179 EAST 71ST STREET / NEW YORK 21, N.Y.

Wikidata ID

Q64630580

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