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Sale 2688 - Lot 47

Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 1987)
Golda Meir.

Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 1980. 1016x813 mm; 40x32 inches (sheet), full margins. One of five printer's proofs, aside from the edition of 200. Signed and numbered "PP 4/5" in pencil, lower right. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, with the blind stamp lower left. Co-published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, and Jonathan A. Editions, Tel Aviv, with the copyright stamp verso. From Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. Feldman-Schellmann II.233.
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For his Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century screenprints, Andy Warhol utilized a layered collage technique. In Warhol's maquettes, he printed on colored graphic art paper and torn paper collage, and added gestural drawn lines on the resultant printed image. He experimented with color combinations extensively, resulting in several unique trial proofs. Later Warhol would revisit these screenprints and make paintings after their subjects.

The portfolio was the result of his first collaboration with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Warhol took source photographs of ten preeminent Jewish politicians, intellectuals, and artists, whom he referred to as "Jewish Geniuses". They differ from his earlier subjects as they were not contemporary pop culture icons.

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