Drawing and Architecture at the Centre Pompidou

Saul Steinberg and Paul Nelson are honored in Paris

Drawing and architecture are closely linked, and yet the parallels are limited: from September 29, 2021 to February 28, 2022, the Centre Pompidou will present two exhibitions that explore this relationship while treating each medium as a discipline in its own right.

September 28, 2021

Saul Steinberg, a former architecture student who never worked as an architect, and Paul Nelson, an American architect who realized himself in France: both learned to draw for the purpose of architectural design, but then went very different ways.

More than 80 of Steinbeck's works, including photographs and assemblages, are on display at the Galerie d'art graphique at the Centre Pompidou in the exhibition "Saul Steinbeck. Between the Lines." Steinbeck was primarily a draftsman and caricaturist who lived in New York from the 1940s. There he maintained close contact with representatives of action painting and American Pop Art. As well as other things, Steinbeck experimented with drawings on other media in order to free them from the small-format paper. Also on view in this exhibition is The Art Viewers (1966), one of Steinbeck's few murals that is rarely seen.

Recent auction results of Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg - The Persian Table
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20th Century Evening Sale
November 2023
Christies, London
Est.: 60.000 - 80.000 USD
Realised: 81.900 USD
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Saul Steinberg - Portfolio Label, from Six Drawing Tables Portfolio
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Editions & Works on Paper
April 2023
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 300 - 500 USD
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Saul Steinberg - The New Yorker. 1976
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Vintage Posters Online
February 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 700 - 900 GBP
Realised: 1.913 GBP
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Saul Steinberg - Marty\'s Deli, 1982
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Discovery on Sunset
January 2023
Bonhams
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Realised: 2.550 USD
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Saul Steinberg - Four Turkish Artists
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Zeitgenössische Kunst | Day Sale
December 2022
Karl & Faber
Est.: -1 - -1 EUR
Realised: 15.240 EUR
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Saul Steinberg - The Orient Express Table
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First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art
December 2022
Christies, New York (Online Auction)
Est.: 12.000 - 18.000 USD
Realised: 15.120 USD
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Saul Steinberg - Speech
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Deck the WallsPrints & Multiples
December 2022
Bonhams
Est.: 400 - 600 USD
Realised: 89 USD
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Saul Steinberg - EAT
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Modern & Contemporary Art
November 2022
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts
Est.: 500 - 700 USD
Realised: 10.200 USD
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Saul Steinberg - Untitled
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Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part II
November 2022
Christies, New York
Est.: 10.000 - 15.000 USD
Realised: 37.800 USD
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Saul Steinberg - Twenty Americans (Twenty Professions)
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Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part II
November 2022
Christies, New York
Est.: 18.000 - 25.000 USD
Realised: 113.400 USD
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At the same time, the Galerie du Musée presents over 60 architectural drawings and two models by Paul Nelson in combination with numerous archival photographs. Nelson, who always commuted between the United States and France, specialized in the architecture of hospitals. His background, his travels, as well as his friendships with modernist artists in France such as Jean Arp and Fernand Léger, works by whom are shown in this exhibition, are reflected in his buildings. Features of French modernism as well as American architecture are combined in them. Some of Nelson's projects that were never built live on in their drawing stage and can be explored here.Art.Salon

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