Andy Warhol Butterflies Happy Butterfly Day Painting Postcard

AW   An undated but modern 6" x 4.5" postcard celebrating this historic painting by Andy Warhol unused and mint.

In Happy Butterfly Day Warhol uses his blotted-line technique and shows an early interest in the repetition of a similar image a characteristic which would define much of his later work. The vibrant colours were possibly added at one of Warhols colouring parties, hosted at the fashionable Serendipity 3 cafÔøΩ after it opened in 1954. He would encourage his friends some of whom would have helped him create the original illustrations - to colour the works with an inventiveness that adds to their whimsical nature. This process looks forward to the production methods of Warhols legendary studio, the Factory, in the 1960s.