Andy Warhol at Steven Kasher Gallery

Currently on view at the Steven Kasher Gallery through April 3rd – “Andy Warhol: Unexposed Exposures.” The collection of 70 black and white unpublished out-takes from his 1979 photobook tries to better reflect Andy’s original pretense of Social Diseases vs the “look at all these friends o’ mine” Exposures result. Read more »

Overexposed Photos Sell for Half Milli

The first night of Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art auction saw modest sales and nothing like Sotheby’s $39 million haul for Andy Warhol’s cash print. With the pop master’s soap box selling for $842k and Dash Snow’s Polaroid prints going for $50k, most sales fell within pre-auction estimates. Read more »

Warhol’s Painting of $200 Sells for $43.7 Million

Sotheby’s post-war and contemporary art auction saw more then $130 million in sales last night. Helping nearly double the auction’s pre-sale estimate was Andy Warhol’s cash tribute. The pop master’s 1962 painting “200 One Dollar Bills,” sold for $43.7 million, triple its estimated price. That means every single dollar in the 7.5-foot screenprinted painting is worth more than $218k. |Artinfo|

Owner of Stolen Warhols Waives $25 Million Insurance Claim

The Los Angeles art collector whose series of Andy Warhol paintings was stolen last month will not pursue an insurance claim reportedly worth $25 million. Eleven paintings from Warhol’s “Athletes” series were stolen from the West Los Angeles home of businessman Richard Weisman, leaving no sign of a break-in and other valuable artworks untouched. The Seattle Times reports that Weisman would rather give up the massive payout, more money than most people see in a lifetime, than endure the insurance company’s theft investigations “poring through his records and questioning family and friends.” “They turn you into a suspect,” Weisman says. Naturally, police are interested in talking about Weisman’s “curious” choice but are having trouble tracking him down. |Seattle Times|

This is How Artistic Geniuses Conduct Business

|via Letters of Note via Richard Blakeley|

LA Thieves Steal Millions in Warhols

Los Angeles police continue investigating the theft of 11 Andy Warhol paintings from the home of wealthy businessman and art collector Richard Weisman, according to the LA Times. Leaving no signs of break in and other expensive art untouched, thieves made off with the pop painter’s “Athletes” series, which they can likely never cash in without getting caught. Commissioned by Weisman in the late 1970s, the silk-screened series includes a portrait of himself, as well as ten paintings of sports stars such as Muhammad Ali, OJ Simpson, Pele, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Although Weisman is believed to own multiple copies of the portrait series in several colorways, he would still like this one back: an “anonymous source” has posted a $1 million reward for information leading to the paintings’ recovery. A gallery of the stolen Warhols after the jump. Read more »