Art Collector

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Art Collector

Date 1968

Medium Black and brown ink, crayon, rubber stamp, colored pencil, and and graphite on paper

Dimensions Image: 17 7/8 x 20 1/16 in. (45.4 x 51 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. (46.4 x 58.1 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 23 1/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 in. (58.7 x 74 x 2.5 cm)

Credit Line Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2019.101

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About this Work

Steinberg often liked to depict art about art. In this piece, he represents a collector of modern art using Art Deco and Cubist elements. The art collector stands in the lower left viewing various art objects in the room, including some Cubist sculptures. In addition, Steinberg includes three of his own stamps in the piece with the two on the back wall suggesting artworks hanging in the man’s collection. The frieze-like blue and red decorative elements above them are made with stencils, a style that Steinberg added to his graphic repertoire around 1965.

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