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Original issue of Interview magazine from June 1979, seventy pages, 11 x 16.75, which depicts Blondie singer Debbie Harry on the front cover, which is signed and inscribed along the right edge in black felt tip, “To Michael, Andy Warhol,” and along her jawline, “Truman Capote.” Above his signature, Warhol has added a large sketch of a woman's lips. In fine condition, with an unobtrusive tear touching the name of the publication.
When 20-year-old Andy Warhol arrived in New York, the young and fast-rising author Truman Capote was the embodiment of all of Warhol's desires. An artist and an original creative personality, Capote became a literary and social star in postwar New York in an astonishingly short period of time. Prior to NYC, Warhol had become obsessed with Capote after viewing the dust jacket of the author’s first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, in 1948. He began sending Capote daily postcards and routinely showed up at the writer’s doorstep. Capote ignored Warhol and let the mail pile up. Warhol turned Capote's rejection into inspiration for his first show, which consisted of fanciful blotted line drawings of boys and butterflies. None of Warhol’s drawings were sold that evening.
Capote said of this time period: ‘Andy Warhol had this obsession about me and used to write to me from Pittsburgh…When he came to New York, he used to stand outside my house, just standing there all day waiting for me to come out. He wanted to become a friend of mine, wanted to speak to me, to talk to me. He nearly drove me crazy.’ Their paths finally professionally crossed in 1969 when Warhol traded a portrait of Capote in exchange for a year of columns for Warhol’s magazine, Interview. The two figures eventually formed a friendship, one that ran hot and cold until Capote died in 1984.
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