Andy Warhol of the Month
Long-Sharp Gallery specializes in works on paper and photography by Andy Warhol. Each month our staff selects a work from our inventory that highlights something about Warhol’s life or interests and discusses it here.
Children
Year: Circa 1955
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 13.75 x 22.625 in (34.9 x 57.5 cm)
Provenance:
Estate of Andy Warhol (stamped)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamped)
Long-Sharp Gallery
Authenticated by the Authentication Board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamp on verso), Foundation archive number on verso in pencil, initialed by the person who entered the works into The Foundation archive.
About this work: This rather unusually large study drawing from circa 1955-56 is believed to be a study for Warhol's 1956 book In the Bottom of My Garden. According to Charles Lisanby, the children (based on the putti familiar in art history [1]) were likely inspired by books Warhol saw in Amsterdam during their first trip abroad. Reading Andy Warhol, p.109. The first exhibition for In The Bottom of My Garden took place at New York's Serendipity 3 on December 2, 1956.
The invitation to that exhibition, pictured in Reading Andy Warhol at p 111, is pictured below left. A study drawing for this invitation (in the private inventory of Long-Sharp Gallery) is pictured below right.
Above, an image of the invitation from the exhibition, 'In the Bottom of My Garden'.
Above, an image of the study drawing for the invitation (left)
for ‘In the Bottom of My Garden’, shown here in a metallic frame.
