Adam Baumgold Gallery presents an exhibition of 40 works by Saul Steinberg from the early 1950's to the late 1980's. The exhibition includes drawings, works on paper and mixed media constructions by one of the 20th century's most enigmatic and inventive artists.

Included will be several emblematic works from Steinberg's previous retrospective in 1978 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among them are "Dancing Couple," 1965, showing a precisely rendered man dancing with a stick-figured woman, as well as "Albergo Minerva," 1965, a bed engulfed by tight concentric circles and Steinberg's purposefully indecipherable calligraphy. "Metro", 1951, is a drawing of a Paris train station teeming with Steinberg's characters, classic architecture and signs, and multiple views that capture the artist's compositional audacity.

The exhibition will feature "Rodozachari Table," 1981, a large mixed media table assemblage that incorporates the tools of Steinberg's art: whittled wooden pencils, paint brushes, and drawing pads, as well as his speech balloons, rubber stamps, assorted themes, symbols, and obsessions, "his "erotica," as he likes to call them." Harold Rosenberg said "They are extensions of himself...Once again, Steinberg presents a fabrication that stands for him but also hides him. The tables continue his autobiography in personal terms that betray no secrets." 1

Another highlight of the exhibition will be one of Saul Steinberg's original sketchbooks - it is a fascinating look into the artist's thought process and decision making in refining his imagery.
The exhibition will include many early drawings from the 1950's and 1960's reproduced in the Steinberg books The New World, All in Line, The Passport, The Labyrinth, The Inspector, Le Masque. Also, exhibited will be drawings that were used for cover illustrations for Steinberg's book The Catalogue, (1962), his exhibition Still Life and Architecture, (1982), and E.L. Doctorow's Creationists, (2006), as well as drawings such as "The Dream of E" (1963) and "I Do, I Have, I Am," (1971), variants of New Yorker cover designs.

The retrospective exhibition, Saul Steinberg Illuminations, will be held at The Morgan Library & Museum starting on November 30, 2006, and the exhibition A City On Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York, at The Museum of the City of New York both curated by Joel Smith, open on November 30 and December 1, 2006 respectively.

The gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00-5:30 P.M. A preview of the exhibition can be seen at www.adambaumgoldgallery.com. The gallery will be closed from December 23 through January 1, 2007.
For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at abaumgold@aol.com or (212)861-7338.

"Rodozachari Table," 1981
Mixed media wood construction
30" x 72" x 30"
Exhibited: Saul Steinberg, Wadington Galleries, London 1983

"Rodozachari Table" (detail)

"Dancing Couple," 1965
Graphite and colored crayon on paper; 20" x 15"
Exhibited: Saul Steinberg Retrospective, Whitney Museum, 1978

"Double Still Life," 1979
Colored pencil on paper
21 1/2" x 29 1/2"
Cover Illustration of
Saul Steinberg: Still Life and Architecture, 1982

"Albergo Minerva ," 1965
Ink, watercolor on paper
22 1/2" x 28 3/4"
Exhibited in the Saul Steinberg Retrospective
Whitney Museum of Art, 1978
Illustrated in catalog, page 128

Saul Steinberg sketchbook, 1983
70 page spiral notebook
8 1/2" x 11"
The sketchbook and a complete facsimile of the entire book will be on view during the exhibition

"Seattle Projects," 1981
Ink, watercolor, colored pencil, collage on paper
22" x 30"
Illustrated in Saul Steinberg, Still Life and Architecture, 1982

"Steinberg Drawing Table," 1971
Mixed media on wood
19 3/4" x 23 7/8"

Untitled (Girl, Apple, Flower, Vase), 1953
Ink, wash, crayon, collage on paper
14 1/2" x 23"

"Military Officer and Woman," 1973
Charcoal and colored pencils on paper
11" x14 "

Untitled (Shoot out), 1949
Ink on paper
14 1/2" x 23"Illustrated, Saul Steinberg, "The Passport"

"Man Carrying Question Marks,", 1965
Pen and ink with pencil on paper
12" x 8 1/8"

"Woman with a Question," 1966
Ink on paper
18 1/4" x 23"

Untitled (Arch), c. 1945
Ink on paper
14 3/4" x 11 3/4"

Untitled (Arch), c. 1945
Ink on paper
14 3/4" x 11 3/4"

Untitled, 1950
Ink on photograph
9" x 7"
Reproduced: Flair Magazine, March 1950

Untitled (Mask), 1963
Ink, chalk, crayon on paper
13" x 8"

Untitled (Woman),c. 1963
Ink, watercolor on paper
16" x 12"

Untitled (Woman, Aug. 9, 1962), 1962
Graphite, colored crayon on paper
9 1/2" x 7 1/4"

Untitled (Baseball Players), 1954
Ink, crayon on paper
14" x 17"

Untitled (Mice), 1952
Ink on paper
Each sheet 4" x 6"