ARTIST:
ANDY WARHOL

TITLE:
10 Portraits of Jews of the 20 Century George Gershwin

MEDIUM:
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.

YEAR:
1980

SIZE:
40" x 32"

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EDITION
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Edition of 200, 30 AP, 5 PP, 3 EP, 25 TP, signed and numbered in pencil lower left.

Warhol became fascinated with a group of influential Jewish figures - a pantheon of great thinkers, politicians, performers, musicians and writers including French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923); the first Jewish judge of the United States Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis (1856-1941); renowned philosopher and educator Martin Buber (1878-1965); the theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein (1897-1955), widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the twentieth century; the hugely influential founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939); vaudeville, stage and film comedians, the Marx Brothers: Chico (1887-1961), Groucho (1890-1977), and Harpo (1888-1964); Israel fourth Prime Minister and one of the founders of the State of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978); distinguished American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937); the eminent novelist, Franz Kafka (1883-1924); and avant-garde American writer, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). The collective achievements of this group changed the course of the twentieth century and may be said to have influenced every aspect of human experience.

“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.”
George Gershin

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Portfolio of ten screenprints. Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York; Jonathan A Editions, Tel Aviv, Israel

© 2008 Gallery Warhol. All artwork is © 1987-2008 The ANDY WARHOL Foundation for the Visual Arts.