Product Description
Book Description: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1988. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photos (illustrator). First Edition. 6 1/2"- 9 1/2". Set in the dervish years of the Sixties and Seventies, "Famous For Fifteen Minutes" is a confession memoir of Ultra Violet. The story recounts of Warhol, a shy, bald, myopic, gay albino from an ethnic Pittsburgh suburb and the "Girl in Andy's Soup," Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a.k.a. Ultra Violet, a convent educated heiress from France. Salvador Dali, her companion for five years, introduced her to Andy in 1963. The book won the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt Award, and has been published in 14 languages. Isabelle Collin Dufresne (born 6 September 1935 in La Tronche, Grenoble, France; stage name Ultra Violet) is an French-American artist, author and former colleague of Andy Warhol. This book has great photos. The book has been signed on the title page by Ultra Violet.
