Vaughn Bodé: Early Cheech Wizard

A very early pencil drawing by Vaughn Bodé of Cheech Wizard is dated 1963 and signed Von. Cheech is shown walking with a Nile Bird which "speaks hieroglyphical." The drawing was donated by Larry Todd and the Bodé Estate to a charity auction in 1982. It was offered on eBay in early 2014.

Vaughn Bodé, Nile Bird Hieroglyphics, 1963
A very early pencil drawing of Cheech Wizard

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Vaughn Bodé, Nile Bird Hieroglyphics, 1963
A very early pencil drawing of Cheech Wizard

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Andy Warhol's Double Elvis

I got to see Andy Warhol's Double Elvis in the weeks before its auction at Sotheby's New York. The canvas is monumental, and I wasn't quite sure what to make of the large areas of flat color given the enormous scale. I found myself surprisingly grateful for the second fainter impression of Elvis over to the left, which I think helps the composition greatly.

Andy Warhol, Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/contemporary-art-evening-n08853/lot.27.html

Fig. 1Bob Dylan holding the present work at the Factory, East 47th Street, New York, 1965
Photo: Nat Finkelstein
© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 2

Andy Warhol, Silver Liz (Ferus Type), 1963

Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 3

Double Marlon, 1966

Private Collection

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 4

Silver Liz as Cleopatra, 1963

Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Mrs. Else Landauer, in memory of her husband, Walter Landauer, 1979

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 5

Red Elvis, 1962

Private Collection

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 6

Andy Warhol, Round Marilyn (Head of Marilyn Monroe), 1962

Private Collection

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 7Film still of the entrance to the 1963 Ferus Gallery exhibition shot by Andy Warhol
© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 8Exhibition poster (An Exhibition by Andy Warhol at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, September 30, 1963) Collection of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 9

Andy Warhol working on an Elvis painting

Photo: Nat Finkelstein 

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fig. 10

Installation view of the present work at the 1963 Ferus Gallery exhibition 

© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Andy Warhol, Double Elvis [Ferus Type], 1963

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/contemporary-art-evening-n08853/lot.27.html

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