Harry's Bar is documented in Andy Warhol's diary as a lunch stop during a Venice visit, where a meal and discussion of delayed exhibition paintings brought the practical obstacles to his show into the day's social itinerary.

Lunch During the Venice Visit

Autillo Codognato invited the group to lunch at Harry's Bar. Warhol recorded having chicken with peppers while listening to Doug and Autillo discuss the customs problems that were still holding up the paintings for his show. The entry places the bar within a visit shaped both by social invitations and by the unresolved logistics of preparing the exhibition.

Customs Delays and the Exhibition

The conversation at lunch turned to what could be done about the paintings, which were still delayed in Rome. Doug and Autillo planned to call the ambassador there in an effort to speed their release. Harry's Bar thus appears not just as a meal setting but as the place where the exhibition's practical predicament was discussed and a next step proposed; the diary does not say whether that call resolved the delay.