Golda Meir was an Israeli teacher, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel elected in 1969. As Israel’s first and the world’s third woman to hold such a position in office, she was described as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics. Earlier to her reign, Meir was an active member of Young Poale Zion, which later became known as Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement. Golda Meir 153A was published as a gift for those attending the American Friends of the Israel Museum Beaux Arts Ball in New York. This print is particularly interesting in Wahrol’s oeuvre, as it is printed onto a strip of felt.
Golda Meir 153A by Andy Warhol as Part of His Larger Body of Work
Golda Meir 153A was published in 1971 as a gift for the attendees to the American Friends of the Israel Museum Beaux Arts Ball in New York. Warhol would later incorporate an image of Golda Meir as a part of his Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century, a series he referred to as his, “Jewish Geniuses.” “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” (Golda Meir, My Life (1975) p. 231).
