We are pleased to offer for sale
Books from the Estate of Michael Goldberg
We offer extraordinary presentation copies of three books by Frank O'Hara each inscribed to his close friend, the abstract painter Michael Goldberg, as well as a copy of the rare and fragile mimeograph magazine "C: A Journal of Poetry," Vol. 1, No. 4, 1963, with front and back cover by Andy Warhol.
The four books were kept by the painter in his studio library at 222 Bowery (Mark Rothko's old studio) and unabashedly display the marks of time, weather and use. All four volumes are complete and intact albeit variously soiled and stained; each housed in matching custom gray linen clamshell boxes.
Goldberg, often labeled as a "second-generation Abstract Expressionist," first exhibited in the seminal "Ninth Street Show"curated by Leo Castelli. O'Hara's influence at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery helped enable Goldberg's first solo show there in 1953. "Frank was crazy about Mike," according to Grace Hartigan. The poet immortalized Goldberg's process in "Why I am Not a Painter" and mentions or makes the painter his subject in many poems, including "Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s birth and other births)." The two socialized frequently in New York City and in East Hampton, particularly in the late fifties and early sixties when Goldberg was married to Patsy Southgate. They collaborated on "Odes" (Tiber Press, 1960, edition of 225), which included original prints by Goldberg. These superb association copies give palpable evidence to quality and importance of this poet and painter's relationship.
"C: A Journal of Poetry," Vol. 1, No. 4, 1963, with front and back cover by Andy Warhol
Frank O'Hara was a contributor to this scarce and important issue of Ted Berrigan's mimeograph magazine, which was dedicated to the work of poet and critic Edwin Denby. The cover features original silkscreen portraits of Denby and Gerard Malanga by Andy Warhol. Berrigan and Warhol met earlier in 1963 at an O'Hara poetry reading. Berrigan subsequently sent the first two issues of "C" to the artist who later offered to do the cover for #4.
The cover of this issue of "C" is an example of one of Warhol's earliest silkscreen multiples. In her book "Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960's" Reva Wolf describes in detail the germinal process of the "C" cover's creation and its significance for Warhol's later work particularly with respect to how it prefigures his subsequent use of the Polaroid camera in creating silkscreen portraits. She writes: "This is the first known instance in which Warhol used Polaroids for silkscreen portraits, a practice he did not pursue at the time but one to which he would return and which would become his standard procedure for making portraits, beginning in 1970. Even his editorial approach to the C portraits--thoughtfully selecting a few photographs out of several he had shot--would become a customary step in his production of the later Polaroid portraits."
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