Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date Ca. 1961

Medium Black ink with erasure on conjoined paper

Dimensions Image: 25 3/8 x 23 in. (64.5 x 58.4 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/8 x 23 in. (64.5 x 58.4 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 34 1/8 x 27 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (86.7 x 68.9 x 3.8 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.94

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Around 1960, Steinberg gave up most of his other commercial work to concentrate on working for The New Yorker and creating art for exhibitions and galleries. This image of a man isolated in his moated, fanciful castle draws inspiration from Steinberg’s use of medieval motifs in “The Count Ory” opera project, as well as the dreamlike drawings of the Surrealists. However, like the “symbolical drawings” of his fellow New Yorker artist William Steig, Steinberg uses a different historic period to suggest the existential state of modern man.

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