Original Vintage Ink Illustration Saul Steinberg of The New Yorker Magazine Cartoon Drawing Rendering American Art Quartet Vocal Group Singing Group
Original vintage illustration in ink on paper, by New Yorker cartoonist, Saul Steinberg. Illustration is of several men singing, with musical notes floating above, in the air. Drawing is signed lower right, and dated lower left, '78.
Saul Erik Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian and American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker. He described himself as "a writer who draws".
Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău, Romania. He studied philosophy for a year at the University of Bucharest, then later enrolled at the Politecnico di Milano, studying architecture, and graduating in 1940. During his years in Milan, he was actively involved in the satirical magazine Bertoldo.
Steinberg left Italy after the introduction of anti-Semitic laws by the Fascist government. He spent a year in the Dominican Republic awaiting a U.S. visa; in the meantime, he submitted his cartoons to foreign publications. In 1940, he was given commissions from various magazines and newspapers and sold cartoons to Harper’s Bazaar and Life. In 1942, The New Yorker magazine, after having published his first cartoon in 1941, sponsored his entry into the United States; and thus began Steinberg's lifelong relationship with the publication. Through well over half a century working with The New Yorker, Steinberg created 87 covers, 33 cartoons and 71 portfolios containing 469 drawings and several hundred other works amounting to more than 1,200 drawings.
During World War II, he worked for military intelligence, stationed in China, North Africa, and Italy. After the war's end, he returned to work for American periodicals, merging an encyclopedic knowledge of European art with the popular American art form of the cartoon, to pioneer a uniquely urbane style of illustration. Although best remembered for his commercial work, Steinberg did exhibit his work throughout his career at fine art museums and galleries. He married Romanian born abstract expressionist painter Hedda Sterne in 1944. They never divorced but Steinberg had "a coterie of mistresses and lovers".
In 1946, Steinberg, along with artists such as Arshile Gorky, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Motherwell, was exhibited in the critically acclaimed "Fourteen Americans" show at The Museum of Modern Art. He has also enjoyed a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1978) and another posthumous one at the Institute for Modern Art in Valencia (IVAM), Spain (2002).
Saul Steinberg
(1914-1999)
New York, American
Ink drawing, on paper
Subject: People singing, one man with a guitar, playing music; with floating musical notes above
Signed, lower right
Dated '78, lower left
Drawing measures approximately 6" X 7", showing from behind mat
Drawing, including frame, measures approximately 12.3" X 14.3"
Excellent original condition in vintage silver metal frame, behind glass. Glass will be removed before shipping to prevent any possible damage to the artwork, in shipment.
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