Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Andy Warhol [Moderna Museet Exhibition Catalog] [SCARCE SECOND SIGNED, LIMITED DELUXE EDITION] [W/ A COPY OF REGULAR TRADE SECOND EDITION] 2 vols.

Warhol, Andy; Olle Granath, Pontus Hulten, Pontus Hultén, Kasper König (eds.)

Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1969. Second edition (limited special edition). Softcover. 1/100. Quarto. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4"). Unpaginated. Original illustrated floral wrappers, with black lettering to spine. The is special limited edition is distinguished by having the edges of the book block in gilt, and its original plexiglas slipcase. Publisher's original slipcase itself housed within a larger modern custom built slipcase to protect the plexiglas. Signed by Warhol on the title page. From a limited edition of only 100 copies printed.

Warhol’s Stockholm Catalogue was published as an exhibition catalogue for his first European museum show at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February - March, 1968. The concept of the catalogue was developed by Kasper König, who commissioned Billy Name, photographer of ‘The Factory,’ and a teenage Stephen Store, to photograph how Warhol and his co-conspirators lived and worked. ‘The Factory’ opened in 1964 when Warhol moved his studio to 231 East 47th Street and immediately became a hub for the creative energies of New York in the 1960s.

This extremely scarce and desirable deluxe second edition of the catalog was fist conceived in reaction to the popularity of the first edition. According to editor Olle Granath the 100 copies were printed, but were never signed by Warhol as intended at the time. They remained in a box and were forgotten. In 1976 Warhol returned to Sweden and was able to sign the books so that they were finally able to be distributed for the first time.

Warhol’s Moderna Museet catalog “is a fine example of the catalogue-as-artist's-book, a form that ostensibly began with the Dadaists and Surrealists, and is produced with some of the roughest reproductions ever seen, which are entirely appropriate, and supplemented by a long section of Factory snapshots by Billy Name. The genre was revitalized by the Pop movement, and Warhol in particular, which demonstrates his position as a latter-day Dadaist. The Moderna Museet publication especially had a great influence upon Japanese photography in the late 1960s and 1970s, particularly the photobooks of the Provoke era” (Parr and Badger, Vol II).

Limited initial text in English and Swedish.

Minor rubbing to extremities to wrappers, and some light creases along the spine. Plexiglass slipcase and custom slipcase in fine, softcover wrappers in very good+. Interior in near fine. Slipcases in fine, wrappers in very good+, interior in near fine condition. Wrappers and plexiglas slipcase protected in modern mylar. vg+ to fine. Item #53631

Includes a second copy of the work (regular trade edition).

Parr & Badger II, pp. 144-5.

Price: $12,000.00