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...
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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.
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... Read Full Story
An Andy Warhol silkscreen of dollar bills was sold at Sotheby's in New York for 43.8 million dollars after a dramatic bidding war. "200 One Dollar Bills," a gray and black work showing 200 life-sized images of dollar bills, was estimated to sell for eight to 12 million dollars. And a Warhol self-portrait estimated at one to 1.5 million dollars sold for 6.1 million dollars, a fairy tale ending for a work that was hidden away in a cupboard for 42 years by its owner, Cathy Naso -- a one-time... Read Full Story
An Andy Warhol silkscreen of dollar bills was sold at Sotheby's in New York for 43.8 million dollars after a dramatic bidding war. "200 One Dollar Bills," a gray and black work showing 200 life-sized images of dollar bills, was estimated to sell for eight to 12 million dollars. And a Warhol self-portrait estimated at one to 1.5 million dollars sold for 6.1 million dollars, a fairy tale ending for a work that was hidden away in a cupboard for 42 years by its owner, Cathy Naso -- a one-time... Read Full Story
A 1984 Michael Jackson portrait by pop-art icon Andy Warhol surpassed estimates to fetch 812,500 dollars at auction on Tuesday, but two headline pieces at the Christie's sale in New York flopped. Warhol's "Tunafish Disaster," a 1963 silkscreen depicting two housewives who died from poisoned tuna, had to be withdrawn when bidding stumbled at around 4.7 million dollars. It had been expected to go for six million. Even more disappointing was the failure to find a buyer for Jean-Michel Basquiat... Read Full Story
An Andy Warhol painting called "200 One Dollar Bills" has sold at auction for $43.8 million, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 million. The silk-screen painting sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday evening. The names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed. The auction house says the bidding opened at $6 million and was immediately doubled. Five more people in the room jumped in, competing until a phone bidder was declared the winner. The work was created in 1962. It was... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Andy Warhol once said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, but a museum to the pop artist in his native city will instead offer some of the world's most famous spouses a few minutes of provocation. The wives of leaders of 20 major economies meeting in his birthplace of Pittsburgh will stop Friday at the Andy Warhol Museum, whose exhibitions include a collection of acerbic political cartoons from each nation. US First Lady Michelle Obama will have the chance to see a Saudi cartoon... Read Full Story
First lady Michelle Obama is taking on a new role as international hostess when she welcomes the spouses of world leaders headed to this river city for a two-day economic summit. While the presidents and prime ministers spend Thursday evening and Friday chewing over the world's problems, Mrs. Obama will entertain their spouses by introducing them to Pittsburgh as well as to some of her own interests, including art and architecture, arts education, and sustainable farming and eating locally... Read Full Story
