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ANDY WARHOL "Wild Raspberries" 1959 Ltd Edition Hand-Coloured Lithograph Of 205
Overview
Description: This is an original Andy Warhol limited edition lithograph of 205 with extensive watercolour applied by hand. The picture measures 17 inches by 10 inches and comes with an original frame. In the spring of 1959, legendary interior decorator and bohemian hostess Suzie Frankfurt came across the work of a young artist at one of the occasional art exhibits held at Manhattan?s Serendipity ice cream parlour. She was unfamiliar with him but was immediately taken with his whimsical watercolours of flowers and butterflies. The artist, it turned out, was Andy Warhol, who was working as an art director at Doubleday at the time and illustrating his children?s books shortly before he invented himself as Andy Warhol. They became fast friends ? a wavelength alignment only solidified when, one day, Warhol went to Frankfurt?s apartment for dinner and brought her a gold vermeil rose from Tiffany; she promptly filled a Coke bottle with water and put the rose in it ? an act that especially delighted Warhol. By the fall, they had decided to collaborate on a series of handmade books that mocked the fashionable, mass-produced French cuisine cookbooks popular in the 1950s. Frankfurt wrote some recipes, Warhol illustrated them with his Dr. Martin?s paints, and his mother did the calligraphy. Wanting all the books to be hand-coloured, they hired four boys who lived upstairs to come down every afternoon and do the colouring. So painstaking was the process that they were only able to produce 34 full-colour books, which they took downtown for the rabbis to do the hand-binding. The result was nothing short of mesmerizing. But to the duo?s disappointment, the dream that New York?s booksellers would flood them with orders never materialized ? instead, they left a few of their labor-of-love masterpieces for consignment at Doubleday and Rizzoli, and gave the rest away as Christmas presents to friends. As for the recipes, they cater more to the artistic than the culinary ? more to expressionism than to realism.
Condition: This item is used in good cosmetic condition, with some slight sun-discolouration due to the age of the piece. The
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Item Details Data & Sizing Other Information
Brand: ANDY WARHOL
  Type: Limited Edition Print
Style: Illustration Art
Model: Original Lithograph Limited Edition Wild Raspberries 1959
 Artist: Andy Warhol
  

Weight: 2.92kg

Shipping dimensions: 53cm (w) x 17cm (h) x 63cm (d)

Size: Medium
 

 Age: 1959
     

 

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