Andy WARHOL's Personal Copy
of the “Index Book", 1967
First edition, first printing, hard cover, with original plastic wrap & price sticker, Estate Stamp & Numbered on last page (see pic), complete with 10-popups, including a double-page pop-ups of a medieval castle; a red accordion within fold-out page; a multi-colored pop-up airplane; a paper disc with "The Chelsea Girls" in printed type on a wire spring; a dodecahedron showing a man holding a room laid-in (lacking original string attachment); in R.P.M. 45 flexi-disc with portrait of Lou Reed; an illustration of a nose with two colored overlays on a double-fold-out page; a color pop-ups of a "Hunt's Tomato Paste" can; a single sheet of perforated moisture-sensitive tabs; insert a balloon, adhered to two pages. Executed in 1967. 11.25 x 8 5/8 in. (28.6 x 21.9 cm.)
Provenance:
-Estate of Andy Warhol & The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Estate Stamp & Numbered on last page (see pic).
-Warhol @ Christie's: Andy's Factory, 2016, Sale #13413, Lot #23..
Documents included:
-Warhol Estate & Foundation included.
Christies invoice, and various purchasing documents, All works from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts were sold with a Certificate of Provenance, indicating the work originates from the Estate of Andy Warhol, and thence, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Christie's will maintain a database of these purchases which will be used to substantiate provenance in the future and supply relevant information to the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné.