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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.
Untrue to its grammatically flawed title, 25 Cats features prints of only 16 different cats. Except for the cat named Blue Pussy, each one is named Sam, after the first cat Warhol bought to keep Hester company.
25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy and Holy Cats Hardcover – November 12, 1987. by Andy Warhol (Author) 8. See all formats and editions. Drawings of Sam the yellow cat, one blue, and other possible ones. Read more. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 20 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Random House. Publication date.
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).
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 Blue Pussy’.
25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy. Hardcover – January 1, 1987. by Andy Warhol (Author, Illustrator) 4.4 5 ratings. See all formats and editions. Warhol used to give his hosts books with paintings and drawings of cats. This is a collection of some of these individual booklets he created. Still in the shrink wrap.
