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SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999)
Sphinx
signed and dated 'STEINBERG 1963' (upper left); signed, inscribed and dated 'New Yorker N.W. Copyright © 1963 by Saul Steinberg' (lower left)
ink and graphite on paper
1438 x 1112in. (36.6 x 29.2cm.)
Executed in 1963
Provenance
Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Literature
S. Hazzard, 'The Flowers of Sorrow', in The New Yorker, 17 October 1964 (illustrated, p. 52).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Saul Steinberg, 1978-1979, p. 232 (illustrated, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; London, Serpentine Gallery and Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght.
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