Warhol Portraits donated to Tel Aviv’s Diaspora Museum

What do Marylin Monroe and Elvis Presley have in common with Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, and Franz Kafka?

All have been subjects in the paintings of Andy Warhol, the avant- garde American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, who was a leader of the Pop Art movement.

Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of 20th Century Jews” has recently been donated to Tel Aviv’s Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.

The collection, painted in the 1970s, also features Louis Brandeis, Sigmund Freud, Sarah Bernhardt, George Gershwin, Martin Buber, the Marx Brothers,  and Gertrude Stein.

The series is estimated to be worth $100,000, according to Haaretz.

For more information on the exhibit, click here.

Photo by oddsock on Flickr, used under Creative Commons License.

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