The most coherently narrative works of his career, the Dante drawings represent a crucial turning point: they translate from three to two dimensions the fusion of ready-made and manipulated material that so energized Mr. Rauschenberg's famous combines.
In a review posted on the blog of The New York Review of Books, Haleh Esfandari wrote last November that the novel's drawings "represent a distinctly Iranian style of humor, a means of puncturing pretence and power".
The individually framed drawings represent domestic scenes, narrative fantasies and crucifixions, but they are too sketchy to be very compelling in their own right.
"If you ask me what I got from him," Jules Feiffer said last week, "it's that I want people to look at my own work, as they do at Al's, and feel that my drawings represent the moment; that, like Al's work, the work never happens in the past tense".
Old Master drawings represent one of the few areas of growth left in the art market.
Drawings represent a particularly difficult material to evaluate, nonetheless the inter-rater reliability was fairly good.
In van Gogh's case, his early drawings represent more than a vestigial glimmer of his later accomplishments.
Mr. Steig's early cartoons and drawings represent a kind of middlebrow humor that no longer exists, at least not in the pages of The New Yorker.
