The Tree, 1969

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Medium

color lithograph with watercolor, graphite, ink, collage, and rubber-stamping on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 48.26 × 59.06 cm (19 × 23 1/4 in.)

sheet: 56.52 × 74.3 cm (22 1/4 × 29 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2015.19.2762

Artists / Makers

Saul Steinberg (artist) American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999

Atelier Mourlot (printer)

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Steinberg / 1969; upper left verso in graphite: Janis - Bauhaus / 4 color litho / + watercolor, ink, crayon / collage, rubber stamps / by hand ST

Provenance

(Sidney Janis Gallery, New York); The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Janis Gallery, Sidney
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 212, no. 1423.

1983: Steinberg, Saul. The Tree: Nine Variations. New York: Pace Editions, 1983.