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WARHOL, Andy.

In the Bottom of My Garden.

Stock Code
107697
New York, Privately printed by the artist, 1956
£68,500

Stamped by 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.'

A pristine copy of Warhol's illustrated book of fairies and putti frolicking in a garden. This was one of his several forays into bookmaking with offset lithography in the 1950s, with colouring done by hand by Warhol and his friends.

'Warhol's exuberant baroque drawings are highly camp. The title derives from a song by Rose Fyleman and Liza Lehmann, 'There Are Fairies in the Bottom of Our Garden,' which was popularised by Beatrice Lillie (whom Warhol depicted in one of his gold shoe collages) and is considered a gay icon.'


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Description

First edition, landscape 4to (22 x 28 cm); complete set of 20 offset lithographs on thin wove paper, all with hand-colouring, with 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' stamps to lower pastedown, numbered in pencil 'PM 13.0150'; original hand-coloured lithographed paper boards, a pristine example.

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