Stockholm. Moderna Museet. 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout in monochrome. Original publisher's decorated wrappers with bright Warhol flowers over front and rear covers, all edges gilt, black perspex slipcase. The rare...
Stockholm. Moderna Museet. 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout in monochrome. Original publisher's decorated wrappers with bright Warhol flowers over front and rear covers, all edges gilt, black perspex slipcase. The rare deluxe second edition - apparently limited to approximately 50 copies - of Warhol's Swedish catalogue; this deluxe edition, very rarely seen on the market, has all the edges of the pages layered with gold leaf, is signed by Warhol on the first leaf, and is housed in a specially designed black perspex slipcase. Edited by Andy Warhol, Kasper Konig, Puntus Hulten, and Olle Granath, this is the first major exhibition mounted of Warhol's work, held at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, February - March 1968 (only three months before he was shot by one of his own Factory groupies). Published with virtually no text, but dozens of full page black and white illustrations of iconic Warhol images, and hundreds more pages of black and white photographs by Rudy Burkhardt, Eric Pollitzer, John Schiff, and Stephen Shore, this catalogue provides a fascinating picture of the artist, his world, and the people in his sphere. More than a document, since Warhol himself had so much input into it's production.