Untitled (A Conversation), 1962-1964

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Medium

pen and black ink, graphite, watercolor, black colored pencil, and cut-paper additions (on the chair, center foreground) on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 56.2 × 58.42 cm (22 1/8 × 23 in.)
image: 55.25 × 45.72 cm (21 3/4 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation

Accession Number

2016.143.14

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

in black pen and ink, lower left: STEINBERG; in graphite: 1964; upper right: Bleed →; various printers notations on verso overall.

Marks and Labels

stamped in blue, lower left verso, UNBLOCKED, LEAVE BEARERS ON; [in rectangle] THE NEW YORKER / EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT / 25 WEST 43RD STREET / 19TH FLOOR

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Saul Steinberg Foundation, The

Exhibition History

2002: Saul Steinberg. Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 7 February - 7 April 2002

2008: Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within. Menil Collection, Houston, May 23 - August 17, 2008

Bibliography

1962: The New Yorker 38, no. 25 (August 11, 1962), ill., 25 (cropped)

1965: Steinberg, Saul. "Straight From the Hand and Mouth of Steinberg." Life 59 (December 10, 1965): 62, b/w ill. (cropped)

1965: Steinberg, Saul. The New World. New York, 1965: 52 (drawing repro.in b/w with modifications)

2002: Saul Steinberg. Exh. cat. Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 2002: color repro., pl. 83