Pen and ink on paper, circa 1957. 453x606 mm; 17 7/8x23 7/8 inches. Inscribed "Andy Warhols Mother" and dedicated "to Bob Cato" in ink, center recto.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist, by Robert G. Cato, New York; Private collection, Connecticut.
Cato (1923-1999) and Warhol (1928-1987) worked together in New York for the magazine Harper's Bazaar in the 1950s before Cato furthered his career as a highly successful, award-winning graphic artist and Warhol went on to fame as a star of the Pop Art movement.
Holy Cats was a book published by Warhol in 1957 which consisted of 21 offset lithographs based on his and his mother's, Julia Warhola's (1892-1972) designs. The current drawing contains elements which were later used for the drawing that became the cover illustration for Holy Cats.
