Lot #1395: ANDY WARHOL - Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Suite - Color offset lithographs

                 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Suite [the complete set of 10 announcement/invitation cards, accompanied by the specification card, in the original printed folder - a "mini portfolio"]".
Medium: Color offset lithographs.
Date: Composed 1980.
Dimensions: Overall size: 7 x 5 1/2 in. (178 x 140 mm).
Lot Note(s): Each individual card signed by Warhol in black marker. Edition of c250. Cream smooth wove paper. The full sheets. Fine impressions with bright colors. Very good condition, each card with biographical information verso. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, “Andy Warhol Ephemera…Catalogue Raisonne, 1950-1987.” Lyon, France: Les amis du Musee de l’Imprimerie, 2018, Section 8c, no. 35; cf. Feldman/Schellmann II. 226-235. Comment(s): Very rare signed, very scarce unsigned. According to ‘Gordon’s Art Reference’ there have been only two sales of the signed set in the past 30 years. The most recent sale of a signed set was for $17,721 at Auctionata Paddle 8 (Berlin), January 19th, 2016, lot #407. The images are of Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, The Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Sarah Bernhardt, George Gershwin, and Franz Kafka. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York City, for the exhibition "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century" at the Jewish Museum, New York City, from October 7th, 1980 to January 5th, 1981. There was also an exhibition at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida, September 6th to September 28th, 1980. Images copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28079-2-6000]