KOKOSCHKA, Oskar. Jerusalem Faces. Complete set of 6 original lithographs by Kokoschka. Atlas folio, loose as issued in original grey cloth-covered folio box, with original grey cardboard shipping container. Preserved in a second beige linen folding case. London: Marlborough Graphics and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973.

Copy No. 2 of 150, with each portrait signed by the artist in pencil. The portraits were created by the artist during his visit to Jerusalem in April, 1973. Kokoschka's bold strokes of light, line and shape dissolve facial features, producing "psychological portraits," in which the "soul" of the sitter was thought to be laid bare. He claimed that he captured "closed personalities, so full of tension" of his sitters. In the present series, Kokoschka's lines reluctantly converge into descriptions of people marked not only by tradition and history, but by the immediate social events of their time.

The subjects are: Golda Meir, Dr. Shimon Agranat, President of the Israel Supreme-Court, His Beatitude Benedictos I, Greek-Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Moyshe Dayan, Minister of Defence, Sheik Mustafa Khalil El-Ansari, Chief Warden of the Mosque of Omar, and Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem.

The format of the lithographs is 650 x 500 mm (i.e. 25.5 x 19.75 inches). They were printed from the stone on handmade Japan paper by the Graphische Anstalt J.E. Wolfensberger AG, Zurich. In pristine condition.