Andy Warhol, silkscreen "Mao"

[Евгений]

A bit of history.
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At auction Christie `s in New York," Mao "by Andy Warhol sold for $ 17.4 million (2006)
Portrait of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong American pop artist Andy Warhol did in the early 1970's, when China lifted its Iron Curtain. American newspapers were filled with pictures of Mao - and Warhol, who never missed a sign of mass culture (be it a bank's canned soup or a photo of Marilyn Monroe), made a series of ten copyright silkscreen "Mao". Then there were the "Lenin" and "Hammer and Sickle." Portrait of Mao bought a Hong Kong billionaire, executive director of Chinese Estates Holding, Joseph Lau.
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Interesting for three years, prices have risen?
Silkscreen is The Draw products .. and the prices.

[Seriy]

One giant Mao I saw in a museum in Berlin.

[Евгений]

Seriy, is difficult to understand the pricing for this rabotu.Zhivopis understandable, but silkscreen ..

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Eugene

made a series of ten Copyright silk"Mao".

Copyright silkscreen.
He simply chose this technique.

[Евгений]

Workshop contemporary artist

Сообщение от LCR

As part of their search for ways to blur the boundary between the original and copy, Warhol began to paint a portrait of Mao, stiliziruya features of his face. Then, according to his instructions, one of his assistants made a series of 300 copies of each of which was made with the previous one.
Examining the results, Warhol remarked that his Copy center machine equipped with a protective system against falsification of documents, this system was that each successive copy has risen by a fraction of a percent. Thus, the machine changed the face of Mao, which with the increase of circulation became more abstract. Thus was obtained a series of three hundred copies of unique, in the establishment where the machine replaced the artist.
This was the crowning work of the creative process, typical for Warhol from the very beginning of his activities - his first works were created either by using stamps and stencils, or on-line coloring sessions, in which each of the participants - friends of the artist - impose only one color. Since 1962, he was drawn to the technique of industrial screen printing, used them to create portraits of Marilyn.
To create custom portraits after 1968, he first makes Polaroids model, crop and process them, and then increased and was about to transfer to the screen printing. This transfer was carried out as an assistant, which is painting the colored zone portrait - skin, hair, eyes, clothing.

Interestingly, The Draw work, labor, blacks, and the cost reaches $ 17.4 million .. paradox.
LCR, I read again, thank you ...

[Vladimir]

For Warhol is a specific mathematical statistics. And unlike many artists fairly reliable, because a year is a lot of transactions and activities on the market very much.
So: the price index for the lottery graphics Ulohola the French technique in the period 2006-2008 was + 109%. That is, sub-$ 100 turned into 209 dollars. And for the period 2008-2009. chart shows the index down 61%. Specify that the schedule on their terms - it Prints - Paper prints. A silk and mixed techniques are the category Painting. The situation is slightly different: 2006-2008. = + 145%, and 2008-2009 - minus 48%. This is the starting point. In answer to your question you have to remember that Mao was bought on courage, with a huge overpayment. These purchases do not fit the statistics, and perhaps finding a buyer without a discount in the coming years will be difficult.

[Seriy]

Vladimir, I recently stumbled on your and other people's reviews of investment in sovrisk in the early 2000's in the journal "Director" (? Possibly wrong with the called). Prices as from another planet. American abstraktekspressionisty first row of ten thousand dollars.
It is interesting to compare the then and present your evaluation results.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Vladimir

These purchases do not fit the statistics, and perhaps finding a buyer without a discount in the coming years will be difficult.

Volodya facts tell a different story ... Here's the events that have occurred after the record sales (in 2006).
Picture of Andy Warhol sold for $ 44 million (12/11/2009)
Work of the famous American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol went under the hammer for a record amount - 43.8 million dollars. This price was the second largest ever sold paintings by the master.

"200-dollar bills" are two of hundreds of U.S. banknotes, printed on a silk backing. The painting was conceived and created by Warhol in 1962, and its initial price, declared before the start of trading at Sotheby's, ranged from eight to 12 million dollars.

Cloth was the most expensive lot of the auction, after which the organizers managed to earn 134.4 million. Record of the work only to beat "The Broken Green Machine" ( "Burning Green Machine I"), bought in 2007 for 71.7 million dollars .
On Wednesday, the same went under the hammer Warhol self-portrait, which he gave to my friend Kathy Naso. The picture, written in 60-ies in his New York studio "Factory", was sold for 6.1 million dollars. Its former owner, preserved gift wizard in the closet for more than 40 years, said she was impressed by its value.
According to one of the organizers of the auction, Tobias Mayer, to date the demand for art works extremely high. The need for buyers to purchase a unique property began to grow for the first time since the beginning of the global financial crisis. Thus, the last auction raised twice as much money than originally anticipated, reports BBC.

"After a year of lull, people start buying. However, despite the sharp increase in demand, the market still remains unstable. Today we have earned, in fact, the first time in the past 18 months. And the struggle for some pictures while unfolded serious. Many of the works have been bought for much more money than expected, our experts "- said Mayer.
1. "200-dollar bills." Silk (base).

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от Seriy

Vladimir, I recently stumbled on your and other people's reviews of investment in sovrisk in the early 2000's in the journal "Director" (? Possibly wrong with the called). Prices as from another planet. American abstraktekspressionisty first row of ten thousand dollars.

Yes, then in "The Director-info" was the heading "Investing in Art" and a series of articles about investing in direction. I do not know what kind of review you caught. But then there were still a rarity: and Harring and Basquiat, and Kondo. But since then much water has flowed under the bridge. Basquiat has risen in price again at 8. For all the first names have statistics - this market is very underdeveloped.

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Сообщение от Eugene

Volodya facts tell a different story ... Here's the events that have occurred after the record sales (2006.)

In the year sold at auction hundreds of works by Warhol. And only very few are sold for tens of millions. Can only compare the same sales of comparable quality things (with Warhol is not difficult). What are we arguing? Can I sell to Mao, which was bought for 17 million three years ago today that 34 million? Or 50? Theoretically possible. If someone strongly feel an urge. But it will not be an investment decision, and emotional. A wise Chinese man sit by the river to wait for when his pripyvet other "Mao"

[Евгений]

ANDY WARHOL - one of the most famous and controversial figures in the art of the second half of the twentieth century. His work became the personification of triumph and commercial success of the American pop art. Painter, sculptor, designer, director, producer, writer, collector, he became the embodiment of the Renaissance idea of «homo universale» in the era of mass culture. Even the artist turned his life into a work of art, constantly creating new and new myths about the "legendary Andy Warhol."

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Nine in the morning, Pittsburgh, working quarter. In the air - the vile fumes. Over the porch railing is clinging desperately sobbing child - Andy Warhol does not want to go back to school. Rent from a neighbor's nerves (he, too, remain reluctant to be dragged to the factory) - ryavknuv "You go to school, little asshole!" He tear the boy from the porch, and he weighed a powerful cuff. Andy goes into convulsions and ... remains at home - this time for two whole months.

School was hell for him. When Andy called to the blackboard, he could not write a single word - a poor fellow's hands were shaking. The class met free game happy cackling, and soon the boy could not even lace up boots. Doctors found he had St. Vitus's dance, which is complicated stress.

Andy Warhol was a native of a poor Polish family. Few fans knew that Andeka Warhol's parents fled to America from a small Carpathian village from a terrible famine. Father spent whole days at work, the brothers played football in the yard, and Andy was sitting at home, afraid to stick his nose into the street.

In the thirties, industrial Pittsburgh, where the family settled Warhol, could really scare anyone: he was like a furnace of the devil. City on a two-thirds consisted of plants and blast furnaces, through the thick veil of smoke and soot could hardly be seen the sun. Every morning housewives scrubbed from the windows and door handles, a thick layer of coal dust and light fog that rich ladies wear, going out into the street, he immediately turned black.

Andy was the youngest, looked existent weakling, and his mother tried not to let him go far away from himself: all his childhood he spent literally holding his mother's skirt. And always remember the golden peacocks, stretched at ease among the bright red peonies on a lush blue background. Critics admired uorholovskih riot of colors, and do not know that the whole matter - in the fantasy nameless embroiderers of Chinatown: it was there, on the cheap sale, bought his treasure Mrs. Warhol.

The school was a necessary evil, and hide from it was impossible. Andy served for ten years, as others are serving prison sentences. In order not to go crazy, Andy began to draw and make collages. In the old rooms color magazines and cheap comics in front of him opened another world - there lived kings and Hollywood stars. Batman defended outraged virtue, Mickey Mouse led by the nose, strong and stupid pursuers, and charming blonde smiled appealingly homely but honest guys. Andy rummaging in bins, begging for a kiosk at the old numbers, cut, glue, redrawn. Batman lowered powerful wing on his shoulder waved tennis racket Prince of Wales, Greta Garbo walked down the aisle with Mickey Mouse, who was killed in a shoot gangster overgrown coat, cap and beard, Santa Claus, and a bag full of presents peeping happily smiling president of the United States. Every evening, Andy officiated over his desk, mixed paint, glue bred, handled the scissors. Writing skills Andy Warhol never learned - but his drawings was surprised the whole street ...

After school, Andy spent all the savings of the family to have to pay for his studies at the Faculty of Design of California Technical University. In this prestigious institution in the largely been the children of wealthy families, they came to school in limousines, and Andy went to the paint spattered sweater and mostly silent. Not without the help of a loving mother who jokingly teased him nosatikom, Andy was firmly convinced that the uglier it is no one in this world. "He was like an intelligent white rabbit" - recalled a classmate. Against the backdrop of golden youth, Andy looked pretty pathetic and, well aware of it, preferred to stay away: the causes kompleksovat he had enough. But at the eccentric Warhol had an undoubted advantage: he was very talented, and it soon recognized everything. Now, over the poor silent type no one laughed, on the contrary - it spared. Assignments on literature for Andy did compassionate fellow students (he spoke with heavy accent, constantly stumbling on the street slang, and could not put two words together on paper), and sympathetic professors were struggling to gifted student is not expelled from the university: instead of the classical models, he drew picking his nose kids or beggars. Some teachers felt that his artistry - just try to shock others, but for a Warhol was a natural choice of subjects: while classmates had fun at fashion parties, Andy sold candy on the market and, seizing the moment, sketching. If the lessons of drawing, painting for the majority of students were only a way to get a prestigious education, for Warhol same - the only way to escape: behind the looming gray lives of poor neighborhoods. His figures stand out sharply from other works - they were the pressure, energy, they breathed life.

Nobody guessed what the ambitious desire to possess the soul "an intelligent rabbit." And yet he really wanted to become rich and famous. The path to glory was the same: to conquer New York - a mad city, the center of artistic life, and trendy art galleries, in which everyone can become a star. On vacation, Andy has traveled to New York and held a kind of reconnaissance in force: friends introduced him to the staff of several fashion magazines, he showed his sketches and was able to interest them.

Now, however, Warhol took a cheap studio for $ 8 a month and went to work. He visited the editorial board and the New York advertising agencies, demonstrated its portfolio and soon received its first order from a shoe company. Andy used a golden color, it came out provocatively and sexually, and most importantly - remember, this advertising, and sales skyrocketed. Other work, later recognized advertising year, showed a young man, inject a syringe into his arm. Despite the scandal story, customers - owners of radio stations - are satisfied: upgraded the rating of their broadcasts on the problems of youth. Shy boy found valuable quality: better than he caught the developments of time and convert them to advertising images.

Andy has worked like a maniac, but in rare moments of leisure he wrote enthusiastic letters to Hollywood celebrities, imploring them to send anything from personal effects, or at least drop a few lines. He did not envy their success, not trying to extract some advantage: this was something childlike sense of awe of the stars, to which a small cut Andek pictures famous singers and actors, and hung them over the bed. Their brilliance blinded Andy until his death. His friend Bianca Jagger told how one day at a White House reception Warhol, was already world-renowned artist, leaning toward her, whispered: "See?" No, you see? "Beside me sat Sting and Elton John, I can not believe it !

Jobs in advertising demanded art of communication: it was necessary to persuade customers to go to fancy parties. And then it opens another surprising feature Andy: it attracts people like a magnet. It is unlikely that his appearance could arrange to intimate conversations: nervous, always pursed lips, white-haired wig (Andy bald early, and it had the whole collection of different wigs and straps), impenetrable black sunglasses and expensive suits, which he specifically zalyapyval paint to create an image of scattered genius. This image - divorced from the life of an artist who is only interested in creativity, and therefore it has neither the strength nor the desire to take care of their wardrobe - helped him in college, and Andy meticulously recreated it, expecting the same effect.

Was not mistaken. Extravagant image only played into his hands: Warhol was fascinated everyone. In addition, he discovered a very peculiar sense of humor. Stinging remarks thrown a thin colorless voice, gave a man who looks at everything differently. In short, a true artist.

Warhol was just created for nightlife. From childhood he suffered from insomnia and either worked until dawn in the studio, or disappeared in the night clubs. "You know those plants that grow in the dark? - Told his buddies. - Whitish, but very persistent and in their own beautiful?" Here, Andy and the same. " It is indeed very rarely appeared in the sun, always under an umbrella and wearing dark glasses: tender skin burn quickly. Many years later, Andy would withdraw its version of "Dracula": a lone, pale vampire, lost in a big city and dive into bed with the first ray of sun - an exact copy of the Warhol.

He has appeared on any party, where he could get. Andy was a born party-goers and later admitted: "If in New York staged a grand opening of the toilet, I would come there first." In addition to the entertainment he had pursued and another, very specific purpose: as much as possible light up in public, unleash your name as a trademark. And for many years has succeeded in this as anyone: Warhol called a genius promotion.

Incidentally, the first lesson of self-promotion gave him not just anybody, and Salvador Dali. Maitre was commissioned to design showcases the beauty salon in New York. As part of the decoration, he decided to put in a second-story window a large iron bath, which is working smoothly dropped down. Bath almost nailed random onlookers, Daly got in jail (albeit briefly), and emerged unscathed was that the Dali exhibition, held at this time in New York, selling out well.

Soon Andy was the highest-paid advertisers in New York, fulfilling orders for all the fashion magazines, from Vogue to "Harper's Bazar.

However, the eternal label advertiser does not suit Andy: world-wide fame in this field of not earn. Advertising - the art of anonymous, you only know our colleagues. And around Warhol's bohemian life was in turmoil, arranged shocking performances. Art is rapidly losing raid gravity: The Emerging pop art - line, erases the boundaries between "high" and "massive". Now would be a beautiful object that you want: newspaper clippings, shouting ads, heroes cartoons ... Warhol paid close attention to pop art: new art reminded him of their own childhood experiences and experiments he was never afraid. However, his first work, not related to advertising, had a modest success. Warhol himself felt - not that, not that. For days he was looking for a new turn, reception method: svezhenapisannye laid canvases on the sidewalk that left footprints of passers-by trying new combinations of colors, even urinated in his paintings. Greeting friends, Andy continually complained: nothing comes out, need new moves. The idea, which won him the coveted honor, he bought his friend for $ 50. "What are you most like? - She asked Warhol and she answered: - Money. Here and draw a dollar. The idea is to take something simple and all known - the same dollar or a can of soup" - she continued already folded note. Warhol smiled: years of canned tomato soup was his only food.

The monumental canvas with a tin of tomato soup "Campbell" became the hallmark of Warhol and turned it into a star. "He gave us the feeling that even the most trifling and ordinary meaning of the great hidden trinkets. Its banks are full of poetry, they reveal the essence of things" - wrote a New York critic Patterson Sims. Newspapers choked on superlatives. Success came unexpectedly, and reading rave reviews of critics, Warhol did not believe his eyes. But criticism persisted, and the prices of paintings by Andy promptly went up. He realized that he finally really became famous. The world was so naive! People are ready to declare a bank of cheap soup museum treasures, and the plain idea of the price of $ 50 - a brilliant artistic breakthrough. In general, everything in life is much easier than he expected. Current triumph seemed Andy deserved revenge for the hungry impoverished childhood.

The art world is split: one half was of Andy Warhol's dawn of a new art, the second - its complete degradation. And for those and for others it was the embodiment of New York: extravagant, unpredictable esthete.

The artist came together more and more people, attracted by its unusual aura and Warhol, opened a huge studio, dubbed her "factory". Very soon, "Factory" has become a symbol of a new art mecca of bohemian youth. In her room, painted in silver color, constantly spinning young artists, young artists and young ladies who dream to become stars. They were mad about Warhol. Girls wanted to marry him, boys - to fulfill his every whim. Listening to their endless declarations of love and bathing in the streams of flattery, Andy more and more convinced that the people are, alas, stupid ...

On the "Factory" always something going on. In one room discussing a new fashion show, in another they drank liquor in the third reading poetry. Someone was asleep on the comfortable sofas, and some fool in general more than one year does not go beyond the studio, trying to reach nirvana. Warhol painted most of the time in one of zakutkov, but regularly go out to the public. Permanent tusovka it was necessary as the air: in it he drew his ideas, often shamelessly appropriating zadumki his court. He found time for everyone: smile, something advised, made gifts, bought a drink and drugs. Become a favorite of Andy was simple and very pleasant - sometimes for one of its inhabitants smile "Factory" were willing to each other bloody noses. But just as easy to lose and its location - Andy very quickly forget about the people, and yesterday's favorite felt as if he had overthrown from heaven on the cold asphalt. And Andy watched with interest for the fall. He collected the passions and desires, asking friends and acquaintances about their sexual fantasies, quietly writing these confessions on the tape recorder. He took a lot of movies, the plot which consisted of one thing: in front of the camera is on the inhabitants of "Factory" inverted, exposing the soul.

So there was in America a man who has amassed himself more enemies than Warhol. "I will kill him!" - Shouted the enraged Taylor Mead, a close friend Andy, before the premiere of "Bum Taylor Meda." - He has shot for himself, and promised that no one will! "He will deceive anyone, suck all the juice and throw in the trash! " A week later, another approximate Warhol, Freddie Herko (Andy promised to lift him in his new film, and then simply drove), coming home, including "Requiem" by Mozart, took a strong dose of LSD and jumped out the window. Learning of this, Warhol began furiously to walk on the "Factory", kicking his feet lay their stuff: "Why he did not say anything to me?" We're able to take on the film, as he falls! " When drowned Danny Williams (musician group "Velvet Underground", which was produced by Andy) Warhol, according to relatives, used it a suicide note, instead of toilet paper and refused to talk to his mother: "What are you?" This guy was a normal "upright"! "

Edie Sedgwick, his most famous passion that Warhol made a movie star, lived with him for several years and left, realizing that Andy is absolutely incapable of serious relationships. The first days of Warhol and really worried: he regarded it as a close friend and stayed with it longer than with anyone else. For two years she had tried unsuccessfully to get rid of the attachment to heroin (to which her keen on Warhol), in desperation, called Andy and asked him for money for treatment. But Warhol did not even wanted her to listen. As a result, Eddie died of an overdose. Funeral Warhol did not come ...

Simpleton, a genius, immoral businessman - after such stories that recur with the regularity of the mail express, Warhol began to call more, and the Angel of Death. Death became his constant companion, and violence and loneliness - the favorite themes.

By 1968, Warhol was already the acknowledged master of pop art. His exhibitions were successfully held throughout the world, America was not the artist's popularity - for one of his paintings at the auction paid $ 60 thousand. It was a record: none of his contemporaries did not receive much. However, no less than the pictures or movies, Warhol became famous for his outrageous interviews that he gave the right and left. "I did not want to be born. It was a mistake. It is like I stole it and sold into slavery, - he explained in an interview with Time magazine. - I never touched their own work. I do cheap scribbling and ordinary people like me."

In the spring, Andy went to Los Angeles to open his big retrospective. Success was spectacular: overcrowded halls, crowds of students, chanting: "We love Andy Warhol!" Pictures in the newspapers.

...Перед отъездом Уорхол перечитал сценарий, по поводу которого ему опять звонила "эта надоедливая феминистка" Валери Соланис, и с отвращением швырнул его одному из помощников: "Засунь эту дрянь куда-нибудь подальше". Валери мечтала, чтобы Энди поставил по ее сценарию фильм, но Уорхол посчитал его слишком "грязным". Она несколько раз появлялась на "Фабрике", требовала вернуть рукопись, но Уорхол всякий раз отмахивался: "Я ее куда-то дел, я занят, зайди позже". Валери была девушкой неуравновешенной, решительной (она основала Ассоциацию за принудительную кастрацию мужчин) и ненавидела, когда ее обманывают...

В тот момент, когда Энди перерезал в Лос-Анджелесе атласную ленточку, она зашла в оружейный магазин и купила два револьвера - 34-го и З6-го калибров.

Через пару дней после возвращения Энди Валери появилась на "Фабрике". Уорхол трепался по телефону, его помощники обсуждали с куратором одной из нью-йоркских галерей условия будущей выставки. Валери подошла к Энди, достала из бумажного пакета револьвер и выстрелила. Окружающие, решив, что этажом ниже в офисе компартии взорвалась бомба, кинулись на пол. Только Уорхол понял, что происходит. Он вскочил из-за стола и рванулся к Валери, повторяя: "Нет, нет, не делай этого!" Она выстрелила еще раз. Энди упал. Валери перевела дух, сжала покрепче револьвер и выпустила третью пулю. Следующим выстрелом она ранила галерейщика и собиралась перестрелять остальных. Но револьвер заело. Валери вызвала лифт и спокойно уехала. На углу она купила персиковое мороженое, не торопясь съела его и обратилась к уличному регулировщику: "Я стреляла в Энди Уорхола". Позже так назовут фильм о женщине, которая несколькими выстрелами прославилась на весь мир.

После ее ухода началось безумие. Когда-то безупречно работающий организм "Фабрики", сердцем которого был Энди, теперь бился в конвульсиях. Люди бегали, кричали и обливались слезами. Галерейщик, забыв про собственное ранение, пытался сделать Энди искусственное дыхание, но воздух со свистом вырывался из простреленных легких. Агонизирующий Уорхол, наблюдая за этой кутерьмой, неожиданно начал хихикать: "Не смешите меня. Мне очень больно". Пятнадцать долгих минут Энди корчился на полу, пока не приехала "скорая", в больнице констатировали клиническую смерть...

На следующий день газеты пестрели гигантскими заголовками: "Известная феминистка стреляла в короля поп-арта Энди Уорхола", "Самый популярный художник Америки находится при смерти". В то, что чахлый Энди выживет после трех пуль, выпущенных в упор, никто не верил...

И все же он выжил. Более того, прожил еще 23 года, правда, вынужден был носить корсет: врачи неудачно зашили мышцы живота. Но сам он это жизнью не считал. "Я уже мертв, - говорил Энди репортерам, а на вопрос, изменило ли его покушение, только кривил губы: - Вы когда-нибудь видели, чтобы люди менялись?"

Однако перемены все же произошли. К Энди вернулись забытые детские страхи - он вновь стал бояться людей, купил бронежилет и перегородил вход в "Фабрику" конторской стойкой. Окружающих он изводил придирками. Его все раздражало, повсюду чудились опасности: Уорхол не выходил на улицу позже восьми вечера, а дорогие украшения носил только под одеждой - в каждом незнакомце он видел грабителя. Опасения оказались ненапрасными: однажды к Уорхолу пожаловала колумбийская мафия и забрала всю имеющуюся у него наличность - без малого миллион долларов.

Число врагов Энди с годами не уменьшилось. Однажды в него швырнули тортом активисты антинаркотической кампании, в другой раз неизвестные сорвали с него парик на презентации новой книги. Маньяки засыпали его письмами с угрозами. Все они действовали испытанными методами самого Уорхола: любой ценой попасть на первые полосы газет, и это приводило его в бешенство.

В последние годы жизни Энди всеми силами ограждал себя от мыслей о смерти. Он не пришел на похороны писателя Трумэна Капоте, идола своей юности и близкого друга, проигнорировал известие о смерти Марио Амайи - того самого, который пытался когда-то, истекая кровью, сделать ему искусственное дыхание. И даже на похороны родной матери он не приехал, хотя Джулия была, пожалуй, единственным человеком, которого Уорхол по-настоящему любил.

Он умер 22 февраля 1987 года. Про то, что Энди страдал заболеванием мочевого пузыря, мало кто знал. До последней минуты он, панически боясь врачей, отказывался ехать в больницу, хоть его и уверяли, что бояться нечего - возможность осложнений после такой операции ничтожно мала. Операция действительно прошла успешно. Вечером сиделка померила Энди температуру и закрыла палату. А наутро Уорхола нашли мертвым.

После его кончины адвокаты и друзья вскрыли квартиру Энди и были поражены: король поп-арта предпочитал вполне буржуазную роскошь. Везде - на мраморных столах, в антикварных креслах эпохи Людовика XIV, резных шкафах - громоздились нераспакованные свертки с покупками, африканские фигурки из черного дерева, бриллианты от Тиффани, бесчисленные флаконы дорогих духов, индийские благовония, картины, банки из-под печенья, набитые сотенными купюрами, - Энди не доверял сейфам. Шедевры живописи, стоившие сотни тысяч долларов, валялись вперемешку с хламом из лавок старьевщиков: Уорхол всегда мечтал найти какую-нибудь дешевую вещицу за пять баксов, которая со временем будет стоить миллионы. Он тратил на покупки бешеные деньги, но никому их не показывал. В нем жил дух не коллекционера, а бедного польского крестьянина, который твердо знает: заработанные деньги надо вкладывать в вещи.

На аукционе "Сотбис" его пеструю коллекцию продали за $ 25,3 миллиона. В ней, кстати, не было ни одной картины самого Уорхола, за исключением маленького портрета Мао Цзэдуна: Энди не хранил дома своих работ. Некролог в "Нью-Йорк Таймс" начинался словами: "Лучшее произведение Уорхола - это сам Уорхол".

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Сообщение от Vladimir

What are we arguing?

Volodya, I do not argue .. Silk went for 44 million (2009) record is growing .. see what happens in 2010 ..
Can not understand both mass production is of such amounts ..