TWENTY FOUR
ONES

TWENTY FOUR ONES

Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha
Heavy Industry & Factory Publications, 1966

16 pages — 24 uncut U.S. dollar bills
8 3/16 × 6 1/8 in. — 1/32 in. thick
Stitch-bound
Housed in a golden paper envelope
Includes ephemera: folded double-sided poster + announcement card
West Coast Edition of 200 copies
by Sébastien Girard

What if Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol had planned a book during a lunch at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1966?

Twenty Four Ones imagines this lost project — a fusion of Ruscha’s conceptual clarity and Warhol’s obsession with money and mass production. The book is composed of 24 uncut U.S. dollar bills from the Treasury, housed in a golden envelope.

It also includes an A2 folded poster: on one side, Ruscha’s legendary 1968 trade catalog, here amended to feature Twenty Four Ones among his early self-published books; on the other, a photograph of that 1966 Ferus Gallery lunch with Warhol, Ruscha, Nico, Irving Blum, and Ken Price. This image serves as the point of departure for this artist book fiction.
Sébastien Girard