The Queen's New Andy Warhol Paintings Were a Bargain
With the recent purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, it would seem like Buckingham Palace is getting pretty edgy.
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The artist's document of the 1980s recession is expected to go for as much as $30,000 at Christie's auction house.
With the recent purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, it would seem like Buckingham Palace is getting pretty edgy.
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Andy Warhol is once again in the news, with a major show of his works at the Met and an upcoming Christie's auction of his works.
Robert Hughes, the fearless art critic known for his scathing Time reviews and the documentary The Shock of the New, has died.
When a British tourist came back from Las Vegas with a $5 painting he'd bought at a garage sale and told everybody he was pretty sure a 10-year-old Andy Warhol had done it, people flipped out, but now Warhol's brother and a bevy of art experts say its a fake.
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