Signed and numbered lithograph
 
Shmuel (Alexander) Katz, Israeli painter, illustrator and cartoonist, born 1926, Vienna.
Following Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March 1938, the family relocated to Hungary. In 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary, Katz was sent to forced labor camps in Slovakia and Yugoslavia. He escaped to Budapest where he lived in the underground until the arrival of the Soviet Red Army. In 1945, he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Budapest. His first attempt to immigrate to the Land of Israel in 1946 ended in deportation to Cyprus by the British mandatory authorities. He held his first exhibit there. In 1947, he finally reached the Land of Israel and helped to found Kibbutz Ga'aton. In 1950 he joined the staff of "Al Hamishmar" as cartoonist and editor of illustration. In 1953, he studied art in Paris. In 1957 he traveled to Ethiopia and French Somaliland. In 1962, he received an art scholarship from the French government.
Private interview with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, 1979
Katz designed stamps, worked as a military and political cartoonist and illustrated children's books that have become Israeli classics. He died in 2010.