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Self-published. 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy is a privately printed, limited edition artist's book by the American artist Andy Warhol in 1954. [1] It consists of 19 lithographs that were hand-colored with watercolor by the artist and his friends. [2] His mother Julia Warhola did the calligraphy, and is responsible for the dropped “d ...
In 1954, Andy and Julia released a limited-edition artist’s book ungrammatically titled 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (public library), featuring Andy’s signature blotted-line watercolor drawings in vibrant pop-art colors and calligraphy by Julia. Oddly enough, there were only sixteen rather than twenty-five cats portrayed and Julia ...
In 1954, the artist released the drawings, accompanied by his mother’s calligraphy, in the limited-edition book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy. While original copies of the book are hard to come by — Christie’s once estimated one copy at $40,000 to $60,000 — a reprint of a 1987 edition is available from AbeBooks, along with a small ...
The green, pink, magenta and orange tabbies in 25 Cats wear sweet or dumpy grins and lack character. Holy Cats, printed on color paper, is a more imaginative effort. In it, Warhol drew the "pussy heaven" where his deceased pet Hester cavorts with angels and other cats. Warhol privately printed these slight volumes in the early 1950s when he was ...
In 1954, Warhol published a book of hand-colored lithographs titled 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy, void of text except for calligraphic captions by his mother (who accidentally left off the ‘d’ in the title—a flaw which Warhol embraced).
25 Cats Name [d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy circa 1954, was one of Warhol’s first illustrated bound books. Produced with Seymour Berlin of Record Offset Corporation in New York and written by Charles Lionsby, Warhol illustrated 25 cats named Sam, and One Blue Pussy with sixteen drawings of cats, each named Sam, and a seventeenth captioned ‘One ...
Browse works in this category. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism.
