Video: Accidentally bought for $ 5, Warhol's children's drawing could go for $ 20 million
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Briton Andy Fields, who previously stated that he would not rush to part with the early work of the king of pop art Andy Warhol, bought for only $ 5 at a charity sale in Las Vegas, put it on the eBay online auction for $ 2 million. Experts believe that he will be able to get at least 10 times more for his lot.
The portrait, which dates back to the 1930s, depicts the famous American singer and actor Rudy Valley, the star of popular television series and films of those years.
The collector claims that he immediately recognized Warhol's authorship by the bright red lips in the artist's portrait. True, earlier he said that he was not going to sell the rarity, in the coming years he would hand over the unknown work of Warhol to the museum, where everyone can see it.
The Warhol Authentification Board has not yet confirmed the authorship of Warhol, but experts at Sotheby's and Bonhams are convinced that the sketch was made by the king of pop art.
Andy Warhol died in 1987. For the last two decades of his life, the ideologue of the American subculture suffered from the consequences of a bullet wound. In 1968, Valerie Solanas, his student and ardent feminist, shot him. After the death of the artist, his canvases began to be sold for fabulous sums. So, in 2008, "Eight Elvis" were sold for $ 100 million.
Andy Warhol also became famous as the artist who designed the debut album of the rock band Velvet Underground.
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