Garage Sale Warhol a Fake?

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. Everybody wanted to believe so badly that this was real: Headlines stated unequivocally that the image of singer Rudy Vallee was a Warhol, which tourist Andy Fields brought from a drug addict who said his aunt used to babysit the pop-art icon. But now that it's going on display at the Royal Western Academy, folks are lining up to throw some cold water on the story.

Dulwich Picture Gallery to Mount First UK Showing of Andy Warhol: The Portfolios

Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali (3 of 4), 1978, Screenprint, 47.75 x 39.5cm, Bank of America Collection, Image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London 2011.Andy Warhol is one of those figures whose character and legend somewhat overshadow his talents. But he was a giant in the realm of silk-screen printing--and this exhibit will definitely be worth seeing--for those of you who can get there!

LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery announced its summer exhibition Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, Bank of America Collection. The exhibition will focus on the period 1962-1984 during which Warhol focused almost exclusively on the silk-screen printing method.

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'Andy Warhol sketch found' in US garage sale

Kind of an ugly painting--in my view--but it does give a sense of what's to come from Warhol. The bright colors, unusual background pattern and such are a glimpse of things to come.

From the BBC:

"A collector who bought a batch of paintings in a US garage sale has found what is believed to be a sketch by pop artist Andy Warhol among them.

Businessman Andy Fields, 48, from Tiverton, Devon, paid $5 (£3) for the five paintings in Las Vegas in 2010.

When he decided to reframe one of the paintings he found the sketch hidden behind it.

He has been told by a valuer that the sketch could be worth £1.3m - but says he does not want to sell it."

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