Self-Portrait in Profile
c.1986/1995
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black felt-tip pen on wove paper in spiral-bound sketchbook
Dimensions
sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.) book: 35.56 × 27.94 × 1.27 cm (14 × 11 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Accession Number
2016.143.35.19
About the Artist
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg, born in 1914 in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, to a family of Russian Jewish descent, navigated a peripatetic early career shaped by geopolitical upheaval and intellectual curiosity. After a brief stint at the University of Bucharest, he enrolled in 1933 at the Polytechnic University of Milan, earning a degree in architecture in 1940. There, he honed his graphic skills contributing satiri...