EINSTEIN, ALBERT Portrait of Einstein in grisaille rendered in airbrush on illustration board by Irving Sussman, signed and dated 1934 , additionally boldly signed "Albert Einstein," and dated by him 1934. Sheet size 18 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (46.5 x 34 cm). With a period ruled mat lightly adhering to the periphery of the illustration board, framed. Irving Sussman was an artist for the Hearst syndicate of newspapers, and a collector of autographs. The present example comes from the family collection; like a number of other artists and caricaturists, he had a penchant for approaching his subjects with their portrait and asking them to sign. A skilled airbrush artist, he rendered Einstein's face with a Cubist structure of fractured planes, a technique that is not only visually extremely attractive and unusual (it has classic Art Deco qualities), but whose quasi-scientific geometry seems somehow extremely apposite to the man who redefined the geometric laws of space and time. C
EINSTEIN, ALBERT Portrait of Einstein in grisaille rendered in airbrush on illustration board by Irving Sussman, signed and dated 1934 , additionally boldly signed "Albert Einstein," and dated by him 1934. Sheet size 18 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (46.5 x 34 cm). With a period ruled mat lightly adhering to the periphery of the illustration board, framed. Irving Sussman was an artist for the Hearst syndicate of newspapers, and a collector of autographs. The present example comes from the family collection; like a number of other artists and caricaturists, he had a penchant for approaching his subjects with their portrait and asking them to sign. A skilled airbrush artist, he rendered Einstein's face with a Cubist structure of fractured planes, a technique that is not only visually extremely attractive and unusual (it has classic Art Deco qualities), but whose quasi-scientific geometry seems somehow extremely apposite to the man who redefined the geometric laws of space and time. C
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