Andy Warhol. Dossier No. 2357.
The Thirteen Most Wanted.
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, 1967
Warhol finished installing the mural on April 15, 1964, and after triggering objections at the highest level, New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered its removal. Warhol initially refused, then proposed that a series of portraits of Robert Moses, the head of the World's Fair, replace the original mural. This idea did not meet Philip Johnson's approval; instead, Warhol painted over the mural with silver paint. When the Fair opened to the public on April 22, all that was visible was a 20 x 20-foot silver square. Later that year, Warhol used the same silkscreens to make a series of smaller paintings on canvas, which he sent to Ileana Sonnabend to exhibit at her Paris gallery.
This exhibition catalogue includes a print of Most Wanted Man #11, John Joseph H[enehan]., Jr., whose mugshot photograph appeared on page 13 of the New York Police Department booklet.
First edition, exhibition catalogue; 4to (265 x 180 mm, 10½ x 7 in); 6 text leaves and 1 black-and-white print, essay by Otto Hahn; contents stapled as issued at the top inner corner into the publishers white printed card covers, text in black, light toning to edges, creasing to top edge and top outer corner with small mark on upper and lower side, very good.
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