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Offset lithograph with hand-colouring, 1959, on wove paper, from the edition of unknown size, with the offset lithographic title page printed in black on the reverse as issued, with the inkstamps of The Estate of Andy Warhol and Andy Warhol Foundation for the visual Arts on the reverse, 44.3 x 57 cm. This work was part of an unbound set of works kept by The Warhol Estate and comes directly from the Estate.
‘Wild Raspberries’, circa 1959, is a portfolio of uniquely hand-coloured offset lithographs displaying Warhol’s signature blotted line technique. Alongside ‘A Gold Book’, 1957, ‘Wild Raspberries’ is considered one of the most elaborate of Warhol’s self-published works from this period. The series contains vividly hand-coloured illustrations of fanciful foods by Warhol, alongside irreverent and deliberately absurd recipes concocted by Susie Frankfurt – a prominent American interior designer and part of Warhol’s innermost circle. As he did in ‘25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy’, Warhol invited his mother, Julia Warhola, to contribute her signature, calligraphic script for the recipes.
