SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999)

Lot 137
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Lot 137 | SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999)
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999)

Twenty Americans (Twenty Professions)

signed, inscribed and dated 'STEINBERG Copyright © 1975 The New Yorker Magazine Inc.' (lower right)

graphite, ink, wax crayon, colored pencil, watercolor and graph paper collage on paper

Sheet: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm.)

Image: 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (39.4 x 34.3 cm.)

Executed in 1975





Provenance

Estate of the artist.

Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York (acquired from the above).

Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above).

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2015.



Literature

The New Yorker, 20 October 1975 (illustrated in color on the cover).

J. Smith, Steinberg at The New Yorker, New York, 2005, p. 199.



Exhibited

Hannover, Wilhelm-Busch-Museum and Schleswig, Schloss Gottorf, Großstadtfieber: 75 Jahre The New Yorker, July-November 5, 2000, p. 119.

Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard, June-October 2005.

Paris, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson; Kunsthaus Zürich; London, Dulwich Picture Gallery and Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, May 2008-June 2009.

New York, Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill, Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition, September-November 2014.



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