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Artists›Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg

1914–1999

WA-00005697

Râmnicul-Sărat, Romania

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

112

Works in Collection

229

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Publications Referenced

70%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ432856

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

4 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Unknown· 85%
BiographyGallery Pace + Unknown· 80%
Primary mediumUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (3)

Corbett-Dempseyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/saul-steinberg
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Pace-Galleryhttps://www.pacegallery.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5627
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (112)

Las Vegas

1995 · Color etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper

Plate: 30.6 × 26.1 cm (12 1/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 36 cm (17 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1994 · Color photoetching on white wove paper

Plate: 31.5 × 41.2 cm (12 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 54 cm (17 15/16 × 21 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Legs

1992 · Color photoetching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 29.5 × 45.7 cm (11 5/8 × 18 in.); Sheet: 54 × 65.6 cm (21 5/16 × 25 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1992 · Aquatint in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 36 × 57.3 cm (14 3/16 × 22 9/16 in.); Sheet: 51.5 × 72.5 cm (20 5/16 × 28 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Las Vegas)

1989 · Colored pencil and crayon, with graphite and touches of white gouache, on two sheets of ivory wove paper, pieced

70.3 × 50.6 cm (27 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1987 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Sheet: 50.3 × 55.6 cm (19 13/16 × 21 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Citibank)

1986 · Black pencil, over graphite with erasing, and colored pencil and crayon, ruled in black pencil and graphite, on ivory wove paper

37 × 58.7 cm (14 5/8 × 23 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gogol IV

1984 · Color etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Plate: 45.6 × 30.2 cm (18 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 69.5 × 50.7 cm (27 3/8 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Provincetown

1984 · Etching in black on white wove paper

Plate: 30.3 × 43 cm (11 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 54.3 × 63.5 cm (21 7/16 × 25 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sphynx

1984 · Etching in black, with rubber stamp in blue ink, on cream wove paper

Plate: 30.3 × 42.5 cm (11 15/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 56.3 × 76 cm (22 3/16 × 29 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gogol I

1984 · Color etching and aquatint on white wove paper

Plate: 45.6 × 30.2 cm (18 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 69.5 × 50.2 cm (27 3/8 × 19 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Holland Tunnel

1984 · Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

Sheet: 30 × 25.3 cm (11 13/16 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1983 · 3 drypoints in black on ivory wove paper

Sheet: 75.2 × 53.2 cm (29 5/8 × 21 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1983 · Etching in black on pink wove paper

Plate: 12.5 × 17.5 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 55.7 × 45.5 cm (21 15/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1982 · Etching and aquatint in black, with graphite, colored pencil, and crayon, on cream wove paper

Plate: 30.2 × 42.8 cm (11 15/16 × 16 7/8 in.); Sheet: 46.7 × 56 cm (18 7/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Street Fighters

1981 · Color woodcut on cream wove paper

Block: 25.5 × 33.4 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 38 cm (11 1/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rain on Hiroshige Bridge IV

1980 · Pen and black ink, graphite, black and colored pencil and crayon, and rubber stamps in various colors, ruled in graphite, on ivory wove paper, folded

Folded: 37 × 58.8 cm (14 5/8 × 23 3/16 in.); Unfolded: 74 × 58.8 cm (29 3/16 × 23 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rain on Hiroshige Bridge II

1980 · Pen and black ink, with watercolor, colored pencil and crayon, and rubber stamp in black ink, ruled in black pencil and graphite, on ivory wove paper, folded

Folded: 37 × 59 cm (14 5/8 × 23 1/4 in.); Unfolded: 74 × 59 cm (29 3/16 × 23 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rain on Hiroshige Bridge III

1980 · Pen and black ink, with graphite, black and colored pencil, and rubber stamps in black and red ink, ruled in black pencil, on ivory wove paper, folded

Folded: 36.9 × 58.8 cm (14 9/16 × 23 3/16 in.); Unfolded: 73.8 × 58.8 cm (29 1/16 × 23 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1980 · Color woodcut, with watercolor and colored pencil, on cream Japanese paper

Block: 25.8 × 33.7 cm (10 3/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 29 × 37 cm (11 7/16 × 14 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1980 · Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

Block: 33 × 23.6 cm (13 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 41.2 cm (19 11/16 × 16 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Active Duty

1978 · Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

Block: 25.7 × 33.5 cm (10 1/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 41.2 × 49.8 cm (16 1/4 × 19 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Reflection)

1977 · Pen and black ink, with brush and black ink and watercolor and colored pencil over graphite on ivory wove paper, folded

Folded: 36.9 × 53.1 cm (14 9/16 × 20 15/16 in.); Unfolded: 73.8 × 53.1 cm (29 1/16 × 20 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1976 · Offset lithograph on cream laid paper

Sheet: 65.3 × 50.1 cm (25 3/4 × 19 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

112 published of 154 catalogued · 125 with image

Art Institute Chicago
104 published104 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
4 published
The Met
3 published
Whitney
1 published
+ 1 more source · 42 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

The Model Exhibit
1972 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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