Untitled [Mask]

Prints and Drawings

1961-62

Saul Steinberg
American, born Romania, 1914-1999

The art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote that Steinberg had introduced a new subject matter into postwar art: “the mystery of individual identity.” Between 1959 and 1963, the artist collaborated with the photographer Inge Morath, having friends and acquaintances wear paper bags on which he had drawn fantastic faces and then posing them for photographs. The resulting images present an array of attitudes, postures, and mannerisms, but the mask drawings themselves are ripe with innuendo.

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Artist: Saul Steinberg
Title: Untitled [Mask]
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1961–1962
Medium: Pastel, with black crayon, over graphite, on cut brown paper bag
Dimensions: Max: 40.3 × 19.8 cm (15 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Reference Number: 2013.1524

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