Ten Portraits of Jews

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Andy Warhol
Ten Portraits of Jews
1980

About the Item

Andy Warhol TEN PORTRAITS OF JEWS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (10 Card Set) EXHIBITION signed offset lithograph Paper Size: 7 x 5.1/2 inches each. all ten pieces framed as sown. Frame comes free and art work frame in very good condition.History of Andy Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Series, 1980In 1980 Warhol created a series of 10 screenprints as part of his series Warhol Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. At the time, Warhol was increasingly criticized as a mere “business artist” and suffered a decline in his public reputation. The series received negative feedback given that Warhol was Catholic and that he himself did not invest any interest in the subjects. In fact, the idea for the series actually came from Ronald Feldman, Warhol’s dealer. Together, Feldman and Susan Morgenstein, the art gallery director of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, decided on the list of names for this series. Warhol’s investment in the series may have seemed quite shallow for he merely stated he liked their faces and was interested in their celebrity status.Who they AreThe ten screen prints feature a collection of writers, actresses and scientists who are incredibly recognizable around the world. More than mere celebrities, these were people of great accomplishment.1. Franz Kafka was a major German writer highly regarded in literature. His novels fuse elements of realism and fantasy, typically with characters that undergo surreal and incomprehensible situations such as the protagonist who turns into an insect in The Metamorphosis.2. Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet and art collector. She was incredibly active within the Parisian avant-garde movement and is credited with supporting the careers of Matisse and Picasso. At her salon, famous writers such as Ernest Hemingway mingled with other writers she dubbed as part of the “Lost Generation.3. Martin Buber was a Jewish philosopher best known for the philosophy of dialogue, a new form of existentialism. His range of work deals with consciousness, religion, modernity and ethics.4. Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two foundations of modern physics. In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. In 1933, Einstein moved to the United States and spearheaded the creation of nuclear weapons in the United States.5. Louis Brandeis the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice who held office from 1916 to 1939. He was born to immigrant parents from the Czech Republic and attended Harvard Law School, graduating with the highest grade average in the law school’s history.6. George Gershwin was a composer and pianist. His compositions have been adapted to film and television. His best known works are the compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.7. The Marx Brothers were vaudeville, stage and film comedians who went by the stage names Chico, Groucho and Harpo. They are best known for the following films: Duck Soup, Animal Crackers and Monkey Business.8. Golda Meir was a politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Irsael. She is the first and only woman in Israel to hold such a title. She has been compared to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and is one of the founders of the State of Israel.9. Sarah Bernhardt was a French actress who is regarded as one of the best actresses of all time. She began her career during the Belle Epoque period and appeared in several of the earliest films ever made. She was friends with many notable artists and writers of the time, including Victor Hugo and Gustave Doré.10. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist best known for developing psychoanalysis. He contributed several theories to the field of psychology, including the Oedipus complex and the importance of the subconscious.

Creator:
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987, American)
Creation Year:
1980
Dimensions:
Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
7x5.5 inches each UnknownPrice: $6,999
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Pompano Beach, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU133125624821

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Andy Warhol

The name of American artist Andy Warhol is all but synonymous with Pop art, the movement he helped shape in the 1960s. He was phenomenally prolific, and the archive of original photography, prints, drawings, paintings and other art that he left behind is beyond vast.

Andy Warhol is known for his clever appropriation of motifs and images from popular advertising and commercials, which he integrated into graphic, vibrant works that utilized mass-production technologies such as printmaking, photography and silkscreening. Later in his career, Warhol expanded his oeuvre to include other forms of media, founding Interview magazine and producing fashion shoots and films on-site at the Factory, his world-famous studio in New York.

Born and educated in in Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 and built a successful career as a commercial illustrator. Although he made whimsical drawings as a hobby during these years, his career as a fine artist began in the mid-1950s with ink-blot drawings and hand-drawn silkscreens. The 1955 lithograph You Can Lead a Shoe to Water illustrates how he incorporated in his artwork advertising styles and techniques, in this case shoe commercials.

As a child, Warhol was often sick and spent much of his time in bed, where he would make sketches and put together collections of movie-star photographs. He described this period as formative in terms of his skills and interests. Indeed, Warhol remained obsessed with celebrities throughout his career, often producing series devoted to a famous face or an object from the popular culture, such as Chairman Mao or Campbell’s tomato soup. The 1967 silkscreen Marilyn 25 embodies his love of bright color and famous subjects.

Warhol was a prominent cultural figure in New York during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The Factory was a gathering place for the era’s celebrities, writers, drag queens and fellow artists, and collaboration was common. To this day, Warhol remains one of the most important artists of the 20th century and continues to exert influence on contemporary creators.

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