Saul Steinberg's drawing Eat was sold at Bonhams Skinner Marlborough on Thursday. The Saul Steinberg Foundation refers to this sort of composition as a word-object drawing.
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| Eat, 1960 Saul Steinberg Original art The New Yorker, August 20, 1960, p. 30 The Labyrinth, 1960 |
It makes a strong graphic statement mounted in a black frame on a black matte.
Steinberg's pencilled notes indicate the year of creation, 1960, and that it was published in The New Yorker and in his collection The Labyrinth (1960).
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| Saul Steinberg's signature |
The drawing, evidently unsold, was given to Marcus Ratliff in 1979 and was sold by his estate.
The presale estimate of $500-700 makes the piece seem almost in reach. Indeed this might have been the range of the asking price in the 1970s.
Sold!
The hammer price is $8,000, which comes to $10,200 with the buyer's premium. Yet this drawing was only one of nine published in The New Yorker of August 20, 1960, over an extraordinary untitled four-page spread.
The presale estimate of $500-700 makes the piece seem almost in reach. Indeed this might have been the range of the asking price in the 1970s.
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| Saul Steinberg Invaluable listing accessed November 16, 2022 |
Sold!
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Saul Steinberg Bonhams Skinner Modern & Contemporary Art November 17, 2022 Lot 21 |
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Drawings by Saul Steinberg |
Note: The Saul Steinberg Foundation's website has still more of these word-object drawings.
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