Untitled (Mask)
Saul Steinberg
1959
- Medium
- Marker, colored pencil, crayon, and pastel on cut brown paper bag
- Dimensions
- 10 3/4 × 8 5/8 in. (27.31 × 21.91 cm)
- Genre
- Drawings
Tags
United States
About
Walk like an Egyptian! Steinberg relished child-like play. He made many masks from brown paper bags. This one seems familiar from Egyptian mummy cases (sarcophagi). It features a stylized version of the makeup and hairstyle worn by aristocratic women during the 21st dynasty (1077-943 BCE).
