(Pittsburgh 1928–1987 New York)
Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 1980, 10 screenprints in colours on Lenox Museum Board, each signed Andy Warhol, no. 11 from the edition of 200 impressions, sheet sized prints 101.6 x 81.3 cm, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith/New York with the drystamp, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/New York and Jonathan A Editions/Tel Aviv with their stamps on the reverse, each framed

Literature:
Frayda Feldman/Jörg Schellmann/Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints: A catalogue raisonné 1962 – 1987, New York 2003, p. 112, no. II.226 – 235

Provenance:
Ronald Feldmann Fine Arts, New York
Private Collection, Hannover (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above)

Upper row left to right:
Franz Kafka (Prague, Austria-Hungary 1883 – 1924 Kierling, Austria)
He is one of the major figures not only of German but international 20th century literature.

Gertrude Stein (Allegheny, Pennsylvania 1874 – 1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
American author and art collector. After moving to Paris, she hosted a famous salon in 27 rue de Fleurus, which emerged as a very important weekly meeting of the Paris artistic community. Among the attendants were Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, George Braque, Max Jacob, F.Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound.

Martin Buber (Vienna 1878 – 1965 Jerusalem,)
Austrian-Israeli philosopher and author. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 10 times and 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Albert Einstein (Ulm, Germany 1879 – 1955 Princeton, New Jersey)
German-Swiss-American theoretical physicist and widely recognized as one of the influential scientists. Best known is his theory of relativity. In 1921 he received the Nobel-Prize in Physics.

Louis Brandeis (Louisville, Kentucky 1856 – 1941 Washington D.C.)
American lawyer and the first jewish Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1916 – 1939.

Lower row left to right:
George Gershwin (Brooklyn, New York City 1898 – 1937 Hollywood, Los Angeles)
American composer, pianist and conductor whose compositions combined classical, popular and jazz elements. The most famous compositions are ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ (1924), ‘An American in Paris’ and the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’ (1935).

The Marx Brothers
American comedy act. The most famous members were Chico, Harpo and Groucho Marx who acted first in vaudeville shows and theater, then in at least 14 motion pictures, among them ‘Duck Soup (1933) and ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935).

Golda Meir (Kiev 1898 – 1974 Jerusalem)
Between 1969 and 1974 she was the 4th Prime Minister of Israel and the first and only female head of government not only in Israel but the whole Middle East.

Sara Bernhardt (1844 – Paris 1923)
French actress. She had her debut in 1858 at the Comédie-Francaise in Paris. In France she was worshiped as ‘La Divine’ and numerous appearances and tours abroad made her an international star.

Sigmund Freud (Freiberg, Austrian Empire 1856 - Hampstead, London)
Austrian neurologist and father of the method of psychoanalysis.