
02/23/2019
Saul Steinberg began making paper bag masks in 1959. In our recent e-catalogue for "Eyes Wide Open: Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston," art historian Antonia Pocock described the masks as “emblems of the artifice of identity.”
Saul Steinberg, untitled mask, 1959-62, Ink, crayon, pencil, oil stick, and collage on a cut brown paper bag.Evelyn Hofer, Portrait of Saul Steinberg, 1986, dye-transfer photograph © Estate of Evelyn Hofer