Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1965–1975

Medium Black ink, crayon, colored pencil, and and collage on paper

Dimensions Image: 28 7/8 x 23 3/16 in. (73.3 x 58.8 cm)
Sheet: 28 7/8 x 23 3/16 in. (73.3 x 58.9 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 37 1/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (94.3 x 74 x 3.8 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.93

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During the 1960s and early 1970s, Steinberg created much work influenced by Cubism. Here he continues a trend that goes back to the 1950s of rendering the conventions of comic language in the style of modernism. By transforming the conventional speech balloon—an ideal instrument of unambiguous verbal communication—into a cryptic abstract structure, the interpretation is left up to the viewer.

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"Untitled | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2019.93