Sale 2453 - Vintage Posters, August 2, 2017

DESIGNER UNKNOWN 583 ● RAID THE ICEBOX WITH ANDY WARHOL. 1970. 22x23 inches, 56x58 1 / 2 cm. Condition A. Paper. Raid the Icebox was a museum show based on the extensive array of items in cold storage at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum that were not available for public view. The original idea was to have prominent pop artists curate these exhibitions, and have them take place at museums across the country. Andy Warhol curated the first of these shows with items from the RISD Museum storage. The exhibit began in Houston, at the Rice University Institute for the Arts, traveled to the Delgado Museum in New Orleans, and then had its final showing at RISD. “This landmark exhibition was not only noteworthy for Warhol’s idiosyncratic choice of objects - including shoes, parasols, chairs, hat boxes, Native American pottery and blankets, wallpaper, bundles of auction catalogs, even a ginkgo tree growing in the museum’s courtyard - but for the radical way he chose to display the works: along with their storage cabinets, racks, and shelves, as they were stacked and grouped in storage when he first saw them . . . it is unarguably the RISDMuseum’s best-known exhibition” ( http://risdmuseum.org/manual/115_raid_the_icebox) . Although the designer of this poster is unknown, the image is likely taken from one of Warhol’s Polaroid photos of the RISD storage, which were also used to illustrate the exhibition catalogue. RARE . We have found no other copies at auction. [1,500/2,000]