Andy Warhol: Vanitas
Lipstick, lilies, and the slow fade of fame.

Andy Warhol: Vanitas is an unexpected, intimate meditation on impermanence—death in drag, beauty in decline. Centered on Warhol’s lesser-known still lifes from the 1970s and ’80s, this elegant volume reframes the pop prophet as a painter of ephemerality, tracing his obsession with time, mortality, and the hollow shimmer of glamour.

With flowers that wilt like disco lights at dawn and skulls rendered in candy colors, Warhol’s vanitas paintings draw from art history and advertising in equal measure. The book pairs these lush images with essays that explore how fame, faith, and fear found their way into his most haunting works.

At Canyon Creative Studio, we’re drawn to beauty that blinks, fades, and reemerges. Andy Warhol: Vanitas is Warhol slowed down—softer, darker, and more reflective. A must-have for collectors who know that the gloss was always just the surface.

Details

• Hardcover, 112 pages

• 50+ full-color reproductions

• Text by Flaminio Gualdoni

• Published by Skira

• Dimensions: 6.5 x 8.75 inches