1986

 

Steinberg in Amagansett, Fall 1986.
Steinberg in Amagansett, Fall 1986.

Writing to Aldo Buzzi in January, he confesses that “For the last few years, the New Yorker has already been less important to me as a presence—although still a touching one, like tante Sali, the last aunt in my life until a few months ago. I’m exaggerating, perhaps to avoid frightening myself.”

February, begins a series of interviews with Adam Gopnik, intended for publication in The New York Review of Books. The interviews continue into 1991, but no publication materializes; excerpts are published in French in the magazine L’Egoïste, December 1992.

March, spends a week in Guadeloupe with Sigrid.

September, opening of solo exhibition at the Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, and another at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

September 25, he tells Buzzi: “I’m creating a library of books I’ve read. Books made out of wood, Russian books in Romanian, French books in Italian etc., a kind of autobiography….I should end up making at least fifty or so books.” These carved and painted books become the three-dimensional sculpture titled Library.

Library, 1986-87. Pencil and mixed media on wood assemblage, 68 ½ x 31 x 23 in. Collection of Carol and Douglas Cohen.

Library, 1986-87. Pencil and mixed media on wood assemblage, 68 ½ x 31 x 23 in. Collection of Carol and Douglas Cohen.
Library, 1986-87. Pencil and mixed media on wood assemblage, 68 ½ x 31 x 23 in. Collection of Carol and Douglas Cohen.

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