In The Bottom Of My Garden 15 (F. & S. IV.99)
In The Bottom Of My Garden 15 (F. & S. IV.99)
Unsigned Print
Andy Warhol
22 x 28cm, Lithograph, 1956
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Meaning & Analysis
In The Bottom Of My Garden 15 (F. & S. IV.99) is an unsigned print by Andy Warhol, made in 1956 as a lithograph coloured by hand. It shows two winged women: one standing in a bright green dress with a flowing scarf, the other seated in a red-orange gown, her chin resting on her hand. It belongs to the In The Bottom Of My Garden series.
At the left of In The Bottom Of My Garden 15 (F. & S. IV.99), a slender woman stands on tiptoe, wearing a tall feathered headdress and a green dress, holding a long green scarf that falls in loops to her feet. Her eyes are lowered, and small white wings spread from her back. At the right, a fuller figure sits on a chair, one arm resting on its back, her chin propped on her other hand. She wears a red-orange gown decorated with a single pink flower, a long beaded necklace and a bow in her hair. She looks out at the viewer with a bored, faintly amused expression. Both figures are drawn in Warhol’s broken, blotted ink line, with colour washed loosely inside the outlines on the pale paper.
The In The Bottom Of My Garden series comes from a book Warhol made privately in 1956, while he was working as a commercial illustrator in New York. Its pages imagine a garden of cherubs and fairy-like figures, many drawn with the gently cheeky humour of the book’s captions. Here, the two winged women look less like angels than like guests at a party, one posing and one waiting for it to end. The contrast gives the sheet its wit, and shows the playful side of Warhol’s illustration work in the years before Pop Art.
