Andy Warhol

A community portal about Andy Warhol with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Andrew Warhola, better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and celebrity. Warhol also worked as a publisher, music producer and actor. He had experience in commercial art, and was one of the founders of the Pop art movement in the United States in the 1950s.

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Hidden Warhol painting to go on auction block

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An Andy Warhol self-portrait hidden in a cupboard for 40 years will reappear at an upcoming auction in New York for more than a million dollars. The Warhol is one of the stars of Sotheby's contemporary art auction on November 11. It promises a big payday for the owner, Cathy Naso, who was given the painting by Warhol when she was a receptionist at his Factory studio in 1967. Sotheby's estimates the work, inscribed "To Cathy," will fetch between one and 1.5 million dollars. Naso reportedly said she kept the canvas rolled up in a cupboard for 40 years but had decided to sell ... Read Full Story

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Autographed Nude Jackie O. Photo Found in Warhol Time Capsule

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A cardboard lid is lifted and four archivists peer inside. A postal box from Paris. Who sent it? A piece of crusty wedding cake. Whose? Another box: $17,000 in cash. Yet another: An autographed picture of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie Onassis (United States Library of Congress, 1961) These are some of the many items workers have uncovered as they sift through 610 cardboard boxes, filing cabinets and even a shipping container filled with what would be considered junk by most people but has a whole different meaning since it was collected by pop artist Andy Warhol. The archivists, hired with $600,000 from ... Read Full Story

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Lost Warhol painting could fetch more than $1M

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Sotheby's is auctioning a self-portrait by Andy Warhol that was recently found after being forgotten in a closet in New York City for more than 40 years. The painting belongs to Cathy Naso. She was 17 years old when she got a part-time job as a receptionist at Warhol's Factory. Two years later, in 1967, Warhol gave her a self-portrait inscribed to her. The Brooklyn resident displayed the painting briefly and then stored it in a closet. It remained there until this year. It is on display at Sotheby's New York offices starting Friday and will be auctioned at a Nov. 11 sale of ... Read Full Story

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Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson up for auction

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Christie's auction house will offer up a portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol in New York on Nov. 10. The auction house told The Associated Press on Friday that the 30-by-26-inch portrait should fetch an estimated $500,000 to $700,000. It's one of a small group of Warhol silk-screened images of Jackson created in 1984. The painting depicts Jackson smiling in a "Thriller"-era jacket, with squiggles of red and yellow in his hair. Deputy chairman Brett Gorvy says the seller is an anonymous private collector in New York who bought it from the Andy Warhol Foundation in the 1990s. The image is part of ... Read Full Story

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Warhol self-portrait to be auctioned

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NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A former receptionist for Andy Warhol says she is auctioning off a 1965 self-portrait the late U.S. pop artist once gave her as a gift. Cathy Naso, who earned the gift through her hard work at Warhol's New York studio, said she decided it's time to part with the valuable piece of art work, The New York Times reported Friday. Naso said. Experts estimate the painting could fetch up to $1.5 million at Nov. 11 Sotheby's auction. Naso said even when she was not being paid to work at The Factory where Warhol created his works, she would ... Read Full Story

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Portraits of Dorothy Hamill and Muhammad Ali by Warhol were among the stolen works (see all the paintings here) Although his paintings were allegedly stolen fro his westside home last month, Richard L. Weisman waived the $25 million he could have gotten under his insurance policy, reports the Los Angeles Times. Detectives would like to follow up with Weisman about that, but have found it hard to track down him. Weisman told the...

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Grace Jones by Andy Warhol

I love this photo of Grace Jones taken by Andy Warhol. If I had some purple fur I would totally do this version of Grace for Halloween. Andy Warhol, Grace Jones,1984. Polacolor ER. Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. You might remember my outfit last halloween for Fashion sCares. Me as Grace Jones [...]

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Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids

by Tamara Warren Andy Warhol understood the power of immediacy, and the Polaroid Big Shot camera he purchased in 1970 became his favorite tool to capture the heat of the momentous life he lived. The exhibition Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University features nearly 250 Polaroids and 75 black and white prints of the images taken by...

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