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Saul Steinberg, Untitled (Cocktail Party), 1953,
Each guest at this chic cocktail party is represented in a different style. Steinberg used a pointillist technique to depict the woman at right in black-rimmed eyeglasses. He employed a stippling method for the seated woman at lower left -- a figure so insubstantial as to be in existential crisis. The man in the checkered suit, seated on the couch, is the art critic Harold Rosenberg, a friend of Steinberg's and a renowned supporter of abstract expressionism. |