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    Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session

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    13 November 2008

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    • Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)
    Lot 233

    Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)

    Dogma

    Price realised

    USD 47,500

    Estimate

    USD 20,000 - USD 30,000

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    Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)
    Dogma
    signed and dated 'STEINBERG 71' (lower right quadrant)
    ink and graphite on paper
    71 x 42½ in. (180.3 x 108 cm.)
    Executed in 1971.

    Provenance

    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

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    Exhibited

    New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Work by Saul Steinberg, 1973, no. 61.
    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; London, Smithsonian Institution; London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Serpentine Gallery and Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Saul Steinberg, April 1978-April 1979.


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    Property of a Private New York Collection

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