This portrait-format drawing depicts a stylized figure with an oversized head, cape-like garment, shorts, and roller skates. Handwritten annotations identify the subject as “Ma Bogash” and note “Birthday, March 3.”
The lower inscription includes the artist name (Chas.) Charles R. Steindl and a copyright date of March 15, 1939. After he had emigrated to the U.S.A., Hungarian-born Charles R. Steindl first worked as a photographer. Later, in the 1930s, he wisely turned to the art of caricature, which brought him recognition.
