Saul Steinberg and Paul Nelson are honored in Paris

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.

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.