Perhaps of all the many targets the late Iranian-born cartoonist Ardeshir Mohasses's pen savaged during his lifetime, his characteristic blend of surrealistic satire and caricature attack was never deployed to sharper extent than when turned onto himself, as this powerful self-portrait attests.

 Obsessed with the endless manifestations of human frailty and weaknesses, Mohasses's caricatures invoke the expressionist surrealism of Picasso or Daumier with the visceral folkloric tradition of Persian cartoons.