WARHOL, ANDY; AND SUZIE FRANKFORT | Wild Raspberries. [New York: Printed by Seymour Berlin, 1959]

Property from the Estate of Dorothy Greenberg

WARHOL, ANDY; AND SUZIE FRANKFORT

Wild Raspberries. [New York: Printed by Seymour Berlin, 1959]

Folio (17 1/4 x 11 in.; 438 x 279 mm). 19 offset lithographed plates (including title) of images by Andy Warhol and recipes in calligraphic lettering by Julia Warhola, 3 plates handcolored (including the double-page "Piglet"), raspberry-colored tissue-guards. Original raspberry-colored boards; backstrip missing, covers with staining and wear.

One of less than 100 copies. The number of plates colored in each volume varies widely. "Apparently part of the edition was completely hand-colored, but most of the copies were hand-colored only in part, for the most part on the first pages" (Reading Warhol). Wild Raspberries is the last, the largest—and most exuberant—of the six self-published books Warhol issued during the 1950's. The book was exhibited at the Bodley Gallery in New York at Christmas-time, 1959. It was enthusiastically reviewed: the New York Times judged it to be "clever frivolity" and Harper's Bazaar called the book "Noël Provincial." The title is a coy reference to Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film Wild Strawberries, which had just begun it's long New York theatrical run in the summer of 1959. Warhol and Frankfurt tried to sell the book through Bloomingdale's, but sales were low.

REFERENCES

Manet to Hockney 130; Reading Warhol pp. 118–124, 294