This fall The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, honours “the most original man of his time,” as The New Yorker recently eulogised Saul Steinberg, the self-described “brooding doodler” who helped define the essence of that magazine for half a century. Elevating comic illustration to fine art and winning comparisons to artists such as Pablo Picasso and James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp and Charles Chaplin, Steinberg was, as the art critic Harold Rosenberg once described him, “a writer of pictures, an architect of speech and sounds, a draftsman of philosophical reflections . . . a virtuoso of exchanges of identity.”
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