Imagine finding millions of dollars in your garage.
Rock Legend Alice Cooper is selling the Warhol he forgot he owned—then found in his garage – The Art Newspaper
Cooper rediscovered the silkscreen—which had been given to him by his girlfriend, Cindy Lang, “during some crazy years”—a few years ago, rolled up in a tube in his garage. “One day I was talking to [the actor] Dennis Hopper when he was still alive and he said he was selling a couple of his Warhols and I remembered mine and said ‘I think I have still a Warhol somewhere. So I went digging around looking for it.”
Here’s a slightly different approach to selling art, reminiscent of how Banksy would sometimes troll the art market.
Hundreds of Andy Warhol fakes, and one original drawing worth $20k, sold for $250 each – The Art Newspaper
The original Warhol was scanned and 999 copies were redrawn by a robotic arm. According to a video on the collective’s website, each copy then underwent a degradation process before being authenticated as Possibly Real Copy Of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol by MSCHF, then shuffled together and sold for $250 each. The drawing was supposedly purchased in 2016 for $8,125.
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