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Andy Warhol (1928-1987) 25 cats named sam and one blue pussy (f.&s.iv.52a-68a)the book, 1954, comprising eighteen watercolours on a black lithographic base, the colours bright and fresh, with title page and justification this copy signed in blue ball-point pen, inscribed to Bruce Webster, and numbered 18, the total edition was 190, published by the artist, the sheets bound as issued in original calico boards, with a handcoloured lithograph pasted to the uppers, in good condition, overall size 235 x 155mm.
***Warhol was an notorious lover of cats, reportedly having kept as many as twenty five in the Lexington Aveune apartment he shared with his mother. This work, one of the artist's earliest publications, was intended to be given out as gifts to important people the artist was intending to impress, on the outset of his artistic career. Indeed the printer Seymour Berlin has suggested that Warhol spent no expense spared in its production and further claimed that only 150 copies were printed, not the 190 as listed in the colophon. .
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