Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
OLIVIA DE BERARDINIS (1948- )
"Secret Desires." Catalogue illustration for UndercoverWear, published in their Holiday Lingerie Look Book, 1986. Mixed media, including airbrush, watercolor, and gouache, presumably on board. 465x492 mm; 18 1/2x19 1/4 inches, on 21 1/2x24 1/2-inch sheet. Signed "Olivia" in lower right margin, and dated [19]86. Elaborately framed. Not removed from frame for inspection. A printed tear sheet of the catalogue page accompanies the lot.

Provenance: Private collection of owners of UndercoverWear.

Image's caption in the catalogue reads: "There are times when it's okay to be a little selfish. Let UndercoverWear help you fulfill your own "Secret Desires."