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This work is a trapezoidal painting with a seated woman, which functions like a wall sculpture. It was included in a 2023 exhibition at the Drawing Room (East Hampton, New York) titled Saul Steinberg: Material of Interest—Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Objects, and in the accompanying publication of the same title. Around 1968, the artist began creating galleries of works like this one, which he termed “false paintings”—trapezoidal works on wood, assembled to simulate the perspectival view of artworks along a museum or gallery wall when seen from a side angle. He was, as Joel Smith remarked, “representing representation.” Steinberg himself, pointing to a grouping of such works hanging on the wall of his apartment in 1973, called it a “mimic gallery.”