However, despite the opinions of numerous experts from auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Bonhams, the drawing’s provenance still goes unanswered. In lieu of these doubts, the drawing is currently being auctioned on eBay with a starting bid of £1,250,000. That’s nearly $2,000,000! Not bad for a $5 investment.
If the drawing of singer and actor Rudy Valleeis authentic, it could effectively move the birth of Pop Art nearly almost two decades, showing that Warhol has been experimenting with the style since childhood.
We're almost done celebrating Andy Warhol's birthday. See anything good on that live gravecam? Société Perrier has for you a net art GIF tribute to Andy -- for he was a fan of the computer! -- and what do you know, it features some of our favorite artists. Here are…
Here are three of a dozen previously unseen digital images that were created by Andy Warhol and have been trapped on deteriorating floppy disks from 1985. They were just recovered by "a multi-institutional team of new-media artists, computer experts, and museum professionals" using something called “Forensic Retrocomputing.” The purely digital images, “trapped”…
Over the weekend, the developers of Essex Crossing, a forthcoming residential-commercial development on the Lower East side, confirmed it would include a museum devoted to Andy Warhol. The new outpost will operate as a satellite location of Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum. According to museum director Eric Shiner, the New York location presents…
