25-036 Saul Steinberg 1968 “Certified Landscape” 30 x 27

Offered here is a rare original multi-color lithograph by Saul Steinberg (Romanian, 1914-1999). It was published in 1968 and was printed by Irwin Hollander, Hollander’s Workshop, Inc., New York. The printer’s embossed authenticity stamp is in the lower right “IH.” This sheet is number 22 out of an edition of 50. Marked in pencil lower left. The title is “Certified Landscape.” Steinberg made a custom title rubber stamp, impressed along the bottom edge in faint red ink.The sheet size is 26½ × 22, as framed the overall size is 30 × 27 inches. We framed it in gold leaf with an 8-ply acid free museum mat. The glazing is UV acrylic.

This artwork is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Yale University Library, among others. We acquired it from the estate of the artist Audrey Tamny-Shulman.

From Wikipedia: “In 1946, he was included in the critically acclaimed “Fourteen Americans” show at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibiting along with Arshile Gorky, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Motherwell, among others. Steinberg went on to have more than 80 one-artist shows in galleries and museums throughout the US, Europe, and South America. He was affiliated with the Betty Parsons (a Southold resident) and Sidney Janis galleries in New York and the Galerie Maeght in Paris. A dozen museums and institutions (including the Parrish Museum in Watermill NY) have in-depth collections of his work, and examples are included in the holdings of more than eighty other public collections.”

From Pace Gallery: “Perhaps most famous for his New Yorker illustrations and cartoons, Saul Steinberg also made paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, and sculptures that chronicled the modern American psyche. His style is characterized by emotive linework, a mélange of high and low cultural references, and an acute eye for the details and absurdities of city life. While his work could be humorous, Steinberg also made surreal tableaux and offered profound meditations on the post-war experience. Early in his career, the artist made advertisements that were published in magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Fortune, and Time. Steinberg’s work has been exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen. His work belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.”