Andy Warhol: Dossier No. 2357 (The Thirteen Most Wanted Men)
Andy Warhol
1967
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Andy Warhol: Dossier No. 2357 (The Thirteen Most Wanted Men)
Andy Warhol
1967
Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend
Unpaginated [14 pages]
26.5 × 18 cm

Throughout the 1950s, before achieving notoriety as the Pope of Pop, Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola, on a series of small, limited-edition illustrated books, including 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954), A Gold Book (1957), and Wild Raspberries (1959). These early editorial projects were often hand-coloured and illustrated, among others, his distinctive blotted-line technique. 


 


As his style began to crystallise in the 1960s, Warhol’s artists’ books increasingly embraced a more commercial sensibility. Styled as a mock police file, Dossier No. 2357 was conceived to accompany Warhol’s solo exhibition at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in April 1967. While the exhibition featured 22 silkscreens on canvas, the catalogue extended Warhol’s investigation of celebrity, crime and mass media into a more documentary register. It comprised an original offset print and screenprint of Most Wanted Man No. 11: John Joseph H., Jr., together with an essay by Otto Hahn, “Rembrandt vidé de Rembrandt”, all stapled directly into the folder-format publication. As Hahn emphasises in his text, Warhol’s intention in the exhibition was to bring criminals into bourgeois collections.

Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend
Unpaginated [14 pages]
26.5 × 18 cm

Throughout the 1950s, before achieving notoriety as the Pope of Pop, Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola, on a series of small, limited-edition illustrated books, including 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954), A Gold Book (1957), and Wild Raspberries (1959). These early editorial projects were often hand-coloured and illustrated, among others, his distinctive blotted-line technique. 

 

As his style began to crystallise in the 1960s, Warhol’s artists’ books increasingly embraced a more commercial sensibility. Styled as a mock police file, Dossier No. 2357 was conceived to accompany Warhol’s solo exhibition at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in April 1967. While the exhibition featured 22 silkscreens on canvas, the catalogue extended Warhol’s investigation of celebrity, crime and mass media into a more documentary register. It comprised an original offset print and screenprint of Most Wanted Man No. 11: John Joseph H., Jr., together with an essay by Otto Hahn, “Rembrandt vidé de Rembrandt”, all stapled directly into the folder-format publication. As Hahn emphasises in his text, Warhol’s intention in the exhibition was to bring criminals into bourgeois collections.

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Throughout the 1950s, before achieving notoriety as the Pope of Pop, Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola, on a series of small, limited-edition illustrated books, including 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954), A Gold Book (1957), and Wild Raspberries (1959). These early editorial projects were often hand-coloured and illustrated, among others, his distinctive blotted-line technique. 

 

As his style began to crystallise in the 1960s, Warhol’s artists’ books increasingly embraced a more commercial sensibility. Styled as a mock police file, Dossier No. 2357 was conceived to accompany Warhol’s solo exhibition at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in April 1967. While the exhibition featured 22 silkscreens on canvas, the catalogue extended Warhol’s investigation of celebrity, crime and mass media into a more documentary register. It comprised an original offset print and screenprint of Most Wanted Man No. 11: John Joseph H., Jr., together with an essay by Otto Hahn, “Rembrandt vidé de Rembrandt”, all stapled directly into the folder-format publication. As Hahn emphasises in his text, Warhol’s intention in the exhibition was to bring criminals into bourgeois collections.

Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend
Unpaginated [14 pages]
26.5 × 18 cm

Throughout the 1950s, before achieving notoriety as the Pope of Pop, Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola, on a series of small, limited-edition illustrated books, including 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954), A Gold Book (1957), and Wild Raspberries (1959). These early editorial projects were often hand-coloured and illustrated, among others, his distinctive blotted-line technique. 

 

As his style began to crystallise in the 1960s, Warhol’s artists’ books increasingly embraced a more commercial sensibility. Styled as a mock police file, Dossier No. 2357 was conceived to accompany Warhol’s solo exhibition at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in April 1967. While the exhibition featured 22 silkscreens on canvas, the catalogue extended Warhol’s investigation of celebrity, crime and mass media into a more documentary register. It comprised an original offset print and screenprint of Most Wanted Man No. 11: John Joseph H., Jr., together with an essay by Otto Hahn, “Rembrandt vidé de Rembrandt”, all stapled directly into the folder-format publication. As Hahn emphasises in his text, Warhol’s intention in the exhibition was to bring criminals into bourgeois collections.

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Throughout the 1950s, before achieving notoriety as the Pope of Pop, Warhol collaborated with his mother, Julia Warhola, on a series of small, limited-edition illustrated books, including 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954), A Gold Book (1957), and Wild Raspberries (1959). These early editorial projects were often hand-coloured and illustrated, among others, his distinctive blotted-line technique. 

 

As his style began to crystallise in the 1960s, Warhol’s artists’ books increasingly embraced a more commercial sensibility. Styled as a mock police file, Dossier No. 2357 was conceived to accompany Warhol’s solo exhibition at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in April 1967. While the exhibition featured 22 silkscreens on canvas, the catalogue extended Warhol’s investigation of celebrity, crime and mass media into a more documentary register. It comprised an original offset print and screenprint of Most Wanted Man No. 11: John Joseph H., Jr., together with an essay by Otto Hahn, “Rembrandt vidé de Rembrandt”, all stapled directly into the folder-format publication. As Hahn emphasises in his text, Warhol’s intention in the exhibition was to bring criminals into bourgeois collections.

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