Andy Warhol [with supplement]

Warhol, Andy, John Coplans

Eindhoven – Greenwich: Van Abbemuseum – New York Graphic Society, 1970. First edition, issued in an unknown quantity by the Van Abbemuseum. Softcover 4to, with two original color serigraphs at front and rear covers, respectively. Pages primarily printed in black, with over one hundred plates, eighteen of which are in color. 160 pp. Includes a saddle-stapled small 4to printed in black on glossy white stock. 16 pp.

Color-cover variant of one of Andy Warhol’s more comprehensive catalogs, reproducing early work from 1960–1964. Published for the traveling exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with two color serigraph portraits on the front and rear wrappers, respectively, in place of the more common black-and-white cover. Includes essays by Jonas Mekas and Calvin Tompkins, a bibliography, a filmography, and an exhibition chronology. The Dutch supplement includes a translation of Coplans’ essay and an exhibition checklist.

Artifact Vibration Score: 8.3.

Outer covers with age toning and scattered foxing, and pages with trace amounts of age toning along extremities. Very good or better. Supplement with trace amounts of age toning, a handling crease at middle, and a bump at lower heel. Very good. Item 1278.

Price: $400.00