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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.155
People
Saul Steinberg, American (Râmnicu-Sarat, Romania 1914 - 1999 New York, NY)
Title
The Violinist
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308813

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
54.2 x 34.3 cm (21 5/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: STEINBERG
  • inscription: l.l., printed: G. SCHIRMER / IMPERIAL BRAND / No. 14-34 staves / PRINTED IN U.S.A.
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 1/2 BRau-Mt [encircled:] 1
  • inscription: verso, right edge, graphite: Show All
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: Loan no. 66.2268
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: 66.2268 [loan number] / p.o. 13 / #33
  • exhibition label: 1963-1964, removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 518.63

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), by 1954, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.155
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), p. 226; repr. pl. 200
  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 114
  • Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), p. 38, fig. 2.2

Exhibition History

  • Contemporary American Drawings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 01/11/1956 - 02/26/1956
  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964

Verification Level

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