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Auction archive: Lot number 118

SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) GALERIE

Modernist Posters
10 May 2004
Estimate
US$500 - US$750
Price realised:
US$575
Auction archive: Lot number 118

SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) GALERIE

Modernist Posters
10 May 2004
Estimate
US$500 - US$750
Price realised:
US$575
Beschreibung:

SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) GALERIE MAEGHT / STEINBERG. 1953. 251/2X181/4 inches. Mourlot, Paris. Condition A-: minor repaired tears and water staining in margins. Beloved in New York as a cartoonist for the New Yorker Magazine and creator of the iconic "A New Yorkers View of the World," Steinberg was born in Roumania and went to Italy when he was 19 to study architecture. However, once he received his diploma he decided to become an illustrator. His unusual approach, his ironic humor and his absurd graphic accumulations had a tremendous influence on artists like Raymond Savignac and Andre Francois. For his first exhibition at the Galerie Maeght he designed this original lithograph to announce the show. The image, in Steinbergs immediately recognizable style, is a distorted view of the Milan railway station designed with a precision in the drawing that harks back to his training as an architect. Rare. Maeght no. 42, p. 114.

Auction archive: Lot number 118
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2004
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) GALERIE MAEGHT / STEINBERG. 1953. 251/2X181/4 inches. Mourlot, Paris. Condition A-: minor repaired tears and water staining in margins. Beloved in New York as a cartoonist for the New Yorker Magazine and creator of the iconic "A New Yorkers View of the World," Steinberg was born in Roumania and went to Italy when he was 19 to study architecture. However, once he received his diploma he decided to become an illustrator. His unusual approach, his ironic humor and his absurd graphic accumulations had a tremendous influence on artists like Raymond Savignac and Andre Francois. For his first exhibition at the Galerie Maeght he designed this original lithograph to announce the show. The image, in Steinbergs immediately recognizable style, is a distorted view of the Milan railway station designed with a precision in the drawing that harks back to his training as an architect. Rare. Maeght no. 42, p. 114.

Auction archive: Lot number 118
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2004
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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