steinberg - the new yorker 1976

Steinberg - The New Yorker 1976
Original poster, first print, large format poster in 100 x 70 cm. Printed on paper. At the top is the masthead of the famous magazine, at the bottom the artist's signature. Saul Steinberg was among the greatest illustrators of the 20th century, a world-renowned artist who, in his career, collaborated with leading American periodicals, including Life, Time, Harper's Bazaar, but best known for his work with The New Yorker from the 1940s to the 1980s, for which he produced drawings, cartoons, illustrated reportage, and dozens of covers. With his spare, sharp line and his metaphysical imagination influenced by Dadaism and Art Deco, Steinberg on the magazine’s covers depicted views of New York and visionary, surreal compositions. Steinberg suggested replacing the word “autobiography” with “autogeography,” as if life were essentially a matter of places, of locations and perspectives, as in this famous New Yorker cover from March 29, 1976, titled