The Cat

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Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)
The Cat
signed with initials , inscribed and dated 'to Margaret O'H/ S.ST. 58' (lower left)
mixed media and coloured chalks
19 x 23.1/4 in. (48.3 x 59 cm.); sold together with a framed poster with a Steinberg illustration advertising an exhibition of Amerikaanse Karikaturisten, held at the Design Museum in Ghent, Belgium in 1956.

來源

given by the artist to the present owners mother.

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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In April 1958 Steinberg was in Brussels to complete his monumental mural, The Americans, for the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World Fair. The work was an 8-section mural, with a total length of 240 feet, presenting a panorama of American life as seen through Steinberg's creative eye. He had emerged as one of America's leading post-war revolutionary artists and The Americans a monumental, mixed media mural was an evocation of his quest for a new form of self-expression. Steinberg spent about three weeks in the pavilion in Brussels constructing the mural, adding brown-paper collage figures to a background of his photographically enlarged drawings. It was during his time in Brussels that he met with 'Margaret O'H' and made for her the work offered here, most probably using the same brown-paper he was using for The Americans mural.
The photo (above right) shows Saul Steinberg working on The Americans mural at the US Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, March-April 1958 (photographer unknown). The brown paper used can clearly be seen in the wall mural and also on the table in the foreground