Lot #1530: ANDY WARHOL - Andy Warhol and His Plastic Inevitable [1st printing] - Color lithograph

   

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Andy Warhol and His Plastic Inevitable [1st printing] [announcement/oversize postcard]".
Medium: Color lithograph.
Date: Composed 1967.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 x 5 in. (203 x 127 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed by Warhol in black marker, lower right. Edition unknown, presumed small. Light cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Comment(s): Scarce, and rare signed by Warhol. Designed by Wes Wilson. The postcard for the famous event, unlike the poster with the same image, was authorized by Bill Graham and first printed early in 1967 along with the second printing of the poster. The colors of the card match the colors of the first and second printings of the poster. The card was printed by the West Coast Lithograph Co., San Francisco (their imprint verso), who also printed the second printing of the poster. The postcard was subsequently reprinted by Wes Wilson in 1993. Since the poster had a total of three printings, and concert postcards are generally issued before the event, the 1967 printing of the postcard is often erroneously referred to as a second printing, when in fact it was the first. The first printing can be differentiated from the second by the colors ("Andy Warhol and His Plastic Inevitable" is white in the first, pink in the second; orange lettering in the first vs. red/orange in the second); no small letters under the image lower left in the first vs. the addition of "© 1966 Wes Wilson BG 8-3/PS 33" in the second, the change in the small letters lower right from "Wes Wilson 661-5362" in the first to "Wes Wilson '66" in the second, the deletion on the verso of the printer's information on the second printing, the smaller size (8 x 5 on the first, 7 x 5 on the second), and the paper color (pale cream on the first, white on the second). Image copyright © Wes Wilson. [28361-1-300]