Love is a Pink Cake
The complete portfolio of 25 unbound sheets
Medium: Offset lithograph on blue paper
Year: circa 1953
Edition: unknown size
Each: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Enclosed in a tracing vellum cover
Publisher: The Artist
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann IV.27-50
Created in collaboration with Andy Warhol’s lover Thomas Ward (‘corkie’), who wrote the poems, as a celebration of the start of their intimate relationship
WORK IN PROGRESS
Title Page
Auction Results
Uppsala Auktions: 14 May 2025
Estimated: SEK 250,000 – 300,000
SEK 240,000 (Hammer)
SEK 300,000 / USD 30,750
786. Andy Warhol – Internationell kvalitetsauktion 13 – 15 maj 2025 – Uppsala Auktionskammare
ANDY WARHOL (USA 1928-1987)
“Love is a Pink Cake” (Feldman-Schellmann IV.27-50), 1953
The complete portfolio of 25 unbound sheets (including title page), in-texte, on blue wove paper
From the edition of unknown size
With ‘Estate of Andy Warhol’ and the ‘Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board’ ink stamps and annotations
Contained in a solander box covered in bright pink book cloth
With a foil blocked drawing on the front cover, and title on the spine