Saul Steinberg 'Persian Rug' 1977- Pop Art Vintage

1977

Paper Size: 21.5 x 26 inches ( 54.61 x 66.04 cm ) Image Size: 18 x 23 inches ( 45.72 x 58.42 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited edition offset lith...

The first edition exhibition poster for David Hockney’s 1969 show at Andre Emmerich Gallery, reprinted by Petersburg Press in 1981, features the artwork Courbusier Chair and Rug, 196...

Saul Steinberg Lithograph c. 1970 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; center gold-line as originally issued. ...

Saul Steinberg Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966 Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp Unframed This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work. Commentary: "In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...