![Untitled [Mask], Saul Steinberg, 1961-62](/api/img?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artic.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F21e9e067-07f8-1028-94f4-21c2c0db838f%2Ffull%2F843%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
Saul SteinbergAmerican, 1914–1999Untitled [Mask]
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
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.
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2013.1526
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
