Andy WARHOL -In the Bottom of My Garden (C), 1956 - Offset lithograph (Hand colored!)
In the Bottom of My Garden, 1956
Offset lithograph on paper, hand-colored with watercolor.
with a unique hand-coloring technique by Warhol and his friends!
Dimensions:
+ Sheet size: 21.5 x 27.5 cm / 8.4 x 10.8 in.
Condition: In good overall condition with some minor handling creases. Slight discoloration along the edges of this 1956 print, a few minor stains from hand coloring in the margins, and a couple of small holes along the left edge due to hand binding. Very sharp image with vivid, bright colors.
Taken from Andy Warhol's illustrated book "In the Bottom of My Garden," depicting fairies and putti frolicking in a garden. It is one of his early works in bookmaking using offset lithography in the 1950s.
This is the first original print run made in 1956, from the edition of unknown size.
Referenced in Feldmann-Schellmann #IV.86-105.
We are transcribing the text that appears on the paper:
Top right
TRASHY, TASTE IESS Hollywood WhorE braZENly
CON FRONTING DIGNIFIED, NOBLE PASADEN MATRON
Much to Her Shock
Bottom left:
Quite typical of
THE LOOSE, FAIThLESS PEOPLE
Who Pwell in Hollywood
On the right, first third at the top:
RUBY NECKLACE ONCE
OWNED BY PAULETE GOODARD
Right center:
GOWN BY
Omar Kayam
Bottom right:
OBVIOUSLY AN ARISTOCRATE
BREEDING WILL TELL.
Offset print :
This process is the evolution of lithography. This is an improvement that consists of replacing the lithographic stone with a layer (or cylinder).
Andy Warhol :
American artist of Slovak origins, he was born in Pittsburgh in 1928.
Warhol is a key figure of the American avant-garde, leader of The Pop Art movement since 1960's.
He graduated from Fine-Arts in 1949, and settled in New York to begin a career in advertising, using his draughtsman and illustrator's skills. Also creator of theater costumes, he chose an androgynous look and wore a platinum blonde wig and picked his name after his birth name: Andrew Warhola.
He realized his first works drawing inspiration from comics (Popeye, 1961) or labels of common consummation products (Del Monte Peach Halves, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup).
In 1962, Warhol took part in the « nouveaux réalistes » exhibition in New York, with Roy Lichtenstein and Yves Klein, which introduced Pop Art as an artistic movement.
Through silkscreen printing, he elaborated series about celebrities (Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy or Elvis). He also used them to revisit Mona Lisa's myth and proceeded to a study about flowers.
Warhol's art is close to cinema, in which he worked starting from 1963. He considerably inspired cinematographic avant-garde. Appearing often in magazines, he was considered as an marginal icon.
He opened his workshop-studio The « Factory » in 1963, which became one of the trendiest places of New York's life. The band The Velvet Underground, settled in it in its early stages. Warhol shot several experimental films there.
He met Keith Haring in 1983, became his mentor, and was then joined Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1986 to contribute to the renewal of expressionist figuration.
The artist died in New York in 1987.
