Untitled

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Artist Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999)

Title Untitled

Date 1962

Medium Colored pencil, crayon, and and black ink on paper

Dimensions Image: 21 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. (54.9 x 61.9 cm)
Sheet: 21 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. (54.9 x 61.9 cm)
Framed (Exhibition Frame): 29 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (74 x 94.3 x 3.8 cm)

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

Accession Number 2019.95

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Steinberg’s rendering of a harpy—a monstrous creature from Greek mythology with an insatiable and predatory personality—contains similarities to eighteenth-century artist Francisco de Goya’s satirical work Todos Caerán (All will fall). Particularly comparable are the bird-women’s accessories—a bonnet for Goya’s and a crown with feathers plus purse for Steinberg’s—as well as the U-shaped curve of the branches on which they both rest. Steinberg’s version, however, is simultaneously simplified and dramatized with only a single figure and fantastical coloring. The subject, too, seems less like a prostitute and more like a society matron.

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