Untitled (A Conversation)

1962-1964

Saul Steinberg

Artist, American, born Romania, 1914 - 1999

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2016.143.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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)

  • 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

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q64630582

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