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  • Literature

    A is an Alphabet: Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann IV.1-26
    Holy Cats not in Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann

  • Artist Biography

    Andy Warhol

    American • 1928 - 1987

    Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.

    Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

     

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Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother; and A is an Alphapet

1954
Two artist's books, comprised of 20 and 26 offset lithographs, on colored and wove paper, bound and loose respectively, alphabet created in collaboration with Ralph Thomas Ward (Corkie),
cats: 9 x 6 in (22.9 x 15.2 cm);
alphabet: 9 1/2 x 6 in (24.1 x 15.2 cm)

both generally in very good condition, both with original covers, alphabet with tracing vellum cover with the text: `a is an alphabet by andy & corki' typewritten on an octagonal label outlined in red, and holy cats with paper covered hardcover with offset lithograph on the front.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $12,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm