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EDWARD SOREL (1929-) Self Portrait (Drawing Class).
Cover illustration for Steven Heller's article "A Political Animal" in Print magazine, January-February 1993. Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper. 17x12 3/4 inches, image, archivally framed to 26 1/2x22 inches. Signed "Edward Sorel" in lower left.
Provenance: Davis & Langdale Co., NYC, with their labels; Marcus Ratliff (1935-2022), noted artist and important graphic designer; current owner.
Literature: In addition to the cover of Print, the image also appeared as the dust jacket cover image and on page130 of Sorel's book Unauthorized Portraits (New York: Knopf, 1997).
Exhibited: "Unauthorized Portraits: the Drawings of Edward Sorel," National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution July 12, 1999 to November 7, 1999, Catalog #27, with their label.
The image shows Sorel posing as artists' model for some of his own notable subjects: Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, George H.W. Bush, and Cardinal Terence Cooke who are mercilessly caricaturing the caricaturist. Copies of Print magazine and Unauthorized Portraits accompany the artwork.
