Andy Warhol’s Cheeky Cookbook Heads to Auction at Bonhams
While the Campbell’s Soup can may have made Andy Warhol a household name, it wasn’t the Pop artist’s first stab at the culinary arts.
A rare self-published cookbook by Warhol, one of 34 color copies made, is heading for auction this month at Bonhams. The copy to be offered at Bonhams was signed by Warhol for the fashion editor DD Ryan, and is being sold with an estimate of $30,000–$50,000.
In 1959, Warhol, then working in relative anonymity as a graphic designer, collaborated on the project with his friend interior decorator Suzie Frankfurt, who wrote the text, and his mother, who added calligraphy with deliberate misspellings. Titled Wild Raspberries (after Ingmar Bergman’s film Wild Strawberries), it satirizes cookbooks of the 1950s, which were intended to help readers make French-inspired “haute” cuisine. Warhol’s invented dishes included “Omelet Greta Garbo,” which should “always to be eaten alone in a candlelit room”; “Gefilte of Fighting Fish”; and “Seared Roebuck,” or “roebuck shot in ambush infinitely better than roebuck killed after a chase.”
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