The chair was a spare for the use of Al Hirschfeld, a celebrated theatrical caricaturist. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll look at an understudy that’s getting a moment in ...

Al Hirschfeld, whose spare yet incisive drawings ... sitting in his beloved old barber chair beside his drawing board. But work? “I don’t consider that I work, you know. It’s something ...

Image Al Hirschfeld at home in New York City ... But it’s hardly as if Hirschfeld were content to sit in that spavined old barber’s chair up in his East Side aerie, sealed off from the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, so-called chairman ... perched on an old barber chair from which he has worked for more than 50 years. His beard is whiter today, but his ...

archivist at the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, “but he loved the larger-than-life characters. The ones who didn’t close a door, they slammed it.” Also on tap: Hirschfeld’s barber chair ...

Al Hirschfeld had not only made it to 99 ... Maybe Hirschfeld, who made it up while sitting in a barber chair in front of a drawing board, left a bit of his capacious spirit to inspire the ...

But, in physical and mental health, Al Hirschfeld, at 94 ... who labors over his drawings seated in a barber’s chair and still likes to motor through Manhattan (“like Barney Oldfield, the ...

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The printed souvenir catalogue of The Hirschfeld Sale with an introductory biography of Al Hirschfeld by curator David Leopold of The Hirschfeld Foundation is available for $20 at Doyle New York.