WARHOL, Andy | Untitled (Camille series)

July - October, 1952. Seven photographic postcards (5 ¼” x 3 ¼”) with collaged text; matted in a 60 ¼” x 20 ¼” frame. After graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University (then Carnegie Tech) in 1949, Andy Warhol moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and sought out work as a commercial illustrator. “On Andy’s fourth or fifth day of interviews,” Pearlstein wrote, “he landed a major assignment for an important fashion magazine: a full-page drawing of several women’s shoes on the rungs of a ladder” [“In Philip Pearlstein’s Autobiography, Warhol Is a Major Character,” ARTNews, April 25, 2014]. The assignment was for Glamour and its art director, Tina Fredericks. One whimsical drawing of an orchestra intrigued her enough to ask how much he wanted for it. Fredericks, who was five months pregnant at the time, thought it would be a great addition to the nursery she was planning. He gave it to her for free [Barbara Klein,“The Invention of Andy Warhol,” Carnegie (Summer 2018)].  Fr