Rare illustrated books by Andy Warhol to be offered at Bonhams
Wild Raspberries by Susie Frankfurt and Andy Warhol. New York 1959. Estimate: $30,000-50,000.
NEW YORK, NY
.- People who bought Suzie Frankfurts 1959 cookbook, Wild Raspberries looking for culinary inspiration were in for a surprise. In place of the lavish haute cuisine recipes common at the time, they found absurd concoctions such as that for Omlet Greta Garbo Always to be eaten alone in a candlelit room. They would also have discovered a series of charming illustrations by a little-known commercial artist, called Andy Warhol. A copy of Wild Raspberries signed by Warhol for D. D Ryan, the fashion guru and guiding spirit behind the creation of Eloise, the little girl who lived at the Plaza Hotel, is offered at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in New York which runs online from Monday, March 22 - Tuesday, March 30. One of a number of books in the sale illustrated and self-published by Warhol, all of whi