 Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, the parent company Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, the parent company of Martin Lawrence Galleries, has loaned a four-paneled original by Saul Steinberg to the Valencian Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain, for a retrospective of his work. The exhibit began with an opening reception on February 7, and ran until April 7, 2002. The Institute, also referred to as the IVAM, concentrates on twentieth century art.
The four panels loaned to the IVAM are an autobiographical work. Each panel represents a different period in Steinberg's life. The first is his birthplace of Romania, the second, a reference to "old world" violence, the third, a reference to "new world violence," and the forth, his "current" life in the Hamptons on Long Island.
Steinberg's most famous work is a cover illustration he did for The New Yorker magazine in 1976 which featured "A View of the World from Ninth Avenue", a tongue-in-cheek view of the world which depicts the lands and countries beyond New York City as little more than a strip of land here, a monument there. By the time of his death in 1999, he had completed 85 covers for The New Yorker and more than 600 other drawings. Steinberg received a degree in architecture, and many of his drawings serve as a commentary on contemporary architecture. In the September 1999 issue of Architecture magazine, Peter Blake wrote "When artist Saul Steinberg diedÉnobody seemed to know exactly how to define him and his work. Most people said he had been a cartoonist, some wrote that he had been an extraordinary draftsmanÉand some realized he had been a genius. His friend, New Yorker art critic Adam Gopnik, wrote 'Saul Steinberg was the greatest artist to be associated with this magazine, and the most original man of his time.'"
Saul Steinberg was born in 1914 in Romania, and studied in Bucharest and Milan, where he received his architecture degree. He published cartoons in Italian magazines, and in 1941 began publishing cartoons in The New Yorker. Soon thereafter, he immigrated to the United States, enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and became U.S. citizen. After his discharge from the Navy, he covered the Nuremberg War Trials as a correspondent for The New Yorker. His work has been collected and exhibited the world over, and he served as Artist-in-Residence at the Smithsonian Institute and was elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York.
"I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing & without the traditional interruption of academic training."
Chalk & Vermilion owners, David and Leslee Rogath, have loaned works by artists such as Marc Chagall, Sam Francis, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Andy Warhol, George Tooker, and Jean Dubuffet to major museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Pompidou in Paris, the Royal Museum of Brussels and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Kunstsammlung Nordrhien-Westfalen in Germany, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Martin Lawrence Galleries, America's premier gallery of fine art, represents many of today's most important artists including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Fanny Brennan, Erté, Kerry Hallam, Liudmila Kondakova, Thomas McKnight, and Bruce Ricker.
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