A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

Steinberg left Italy after the introduction of anti-Semitic laws by the Fascist government. S. S.

Saul Steinberg (June 15 1914 – May 12 1999) was a Jewish Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his work for The New Yorker most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue.