Pencil drawing. With the estate stamp and the handwritten number “115.186”, as well as with the handwritten inscription “VF” and the stamp of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on the reverse. 80 x 58.5 cm. , the full sheet. [EH].
• Andy Warhol, the icon of Pop Art, is a brilliant draftsman with an unerring and at times ornamental stroke.
• The screen print of the same name was made after this drawing (Feldmann/Schellmann IIIC.71).
• The present work was inspired by the photograph “Hermann Hesse smoking in the library, 1935”.
• In 2020/21, Tate Modern, London, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, dedicated the special exhibition “Andy Warhol Now” to Warhol's artistic contribution to more social diversity.
