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Lot 262
[Brigid Berlin's Inscribed Copy] Andy Warhol & Bob Colacello. Andy Warhol's Exposures.
New York: Andy Warhol/Grosset & Dunlap, [1979]. Stated first printing, the half title signed in full "Andy Warhol" and with a drawing of a heart initialed "A.W.", further signed by Warhol across the dust jacket, and with an inscription gifting the book "For Irene [Politis]/with much love./Brigid 3/8/80." Publisher's black cloth stamped in silver, in original dust jacket with Warhol's signature in ink. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29 x 24 cm); illustrated with photographs after Warhol, [255 pp.]. Short closed tear to upper jacket panel, chip to head of spine and few others to extremities; Together with a Brigid Berlin signed reproduction photo-collage, the subject dozens of phalluses (of her artist friends?), 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches, signed "Brigid Berlin 96", the image repeated on the verso, fine; A floral watercolor by Brigid Berlin, with inscription to Irene [Politis] dated 1982, 9 x 8 1/2 inches; And various ephemera including a typescript titled "The BB Tapes." The ephemera including items related to the death of Berlin's father Richard Berlin (President of Hearst Corporation); cards to Warhol's memorial mass, 1988; a few other items; and the typescript titled "The BB Tapes" on a cover sheet, 32 pp., dated at the end 11 October 1988, the text offering a brief biography of Berlin's upbringing and first encounters with Andy Warhol, her hiring at the Factory in 1976, descriptions of Berlin's art, books, and exhaustive tape recordings, and transcriptions of taped conversations with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Truman Capote, etc. Minor signs of handling.
BRIGID BERLIN'S TWICE SIGNED COPY OF WARHOL'S EXPOSURES WITH DRAWING AND EPHEMERA. Berlin's copy of Warhol's classic, signed twice and with a large heart drawing, accompanied by two signed artworks by Berlin and an interesting typescript history of the Factory years. Brigid Berlin is pictured twice and mentioned four times in Exposures including a story where Warhol sent Berlin to the East Hampton funeral of Big Edie Beale. In the chapter in Exposures discussing Truman Capote, Warhol describes the excessive alcohol consumption at the Factory: "The vodka disappears. First the Russian then the Polish ... Brigid made scallops one day in white wine and went on a binge for a week. Thanks to Truman we have AA meetings in the office now" (Exposures, p. 145). This is echoed in the typescript of "The BB Tapes" where both Berlin's and Capote's struggles with drinking are described.
As for the artwork in this lot, the most unmistakably Brigid Berlin piece is the signed collage of men's penises, reminiscent of the Cock Book prepared by Berlin, as she states in "The BB Tapes": "I was busy during the late '60's and early '70's with my cock book -- a thick, leatherbound book that all the artists I knew made drawings in. This was followed by the tit book." The present lot is a fine assortment of items that offers examples of, and explanations for, Berlin's important contribution to the New York scene, with her personally inscribed copy of the book that chronicled the era as it came to a close in 1979 through the lens of its maestro, Andy Warhol.
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