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[TheSupremeGenius]

In 1991 I strolled in the alley delivery door of the Andy Warhol Foundation. What knocked me out was the eye-watering stench of enamel screen-printing ink so thick you could hardly breathe. I couldn't see anybody screen-printing, but Andy's whole routine was to merely delegate others to do his artwork for him. It is well known his mom, secretary, and others signed all of his artwork. Herein lies the simple truth: he considered the moneyed pretentiousness of the art world to be truly sickening.

[Frequent2001]

well haha it was probably painted by bridget berlin or someone at the factory to be fair ...

[Jefferdaughter]

People are free to spend their millions however they like, but in some people's view, the issue of 'authenticity' began with Warhol himself. He strikes me as the first 'performance artist'. Or another in a long line of con-artists. However, there is not accounting for taste, and if you like it - enjoy!

[Jefferdaughter]

@Ozzrya91 - Must disagree about Rothko.

[timg455]

Guy buys a painting for 195,000. Guy tries to sell painting for 2,000,000. Guy can't and cries about a board. Should have been more informed.

[JimBlakeLectures]

This "Authentication Board" is an undemocratic scab on America and violation of EVERYTHING Andy Warhol stands for - Can't have it both ways - Andy Was the most extreme manifestation of true democracy and this royalist board is a throwback to the court of Louis XV - Off with their heads !

[XOPAUXO]

andy wasnt an idiot, the idiots are the rich pompous buyers who think that art is only decoration

[Dealit707]

This is to inform you, that you have been....DENIED! DENIED!!.....That is correct.....DENIED!!!!!

Your "Original" Warhol is a "FRAUD".

NO MONEY FOR YOU!! HA HA HA

[ivelosthewilltolive]

Is that Richard Rogers?

[WholeLottaGreer]

Artists are easier to deal with when they're alive!

[heart106]

double denied joe simon painting

[neoncigar]

what a bunch of crooks. in any other business they would be in prison

[gina888warhol]

awsome

[heart106]

hi there, watch the case against the Andy Warhol Foundation, it-s getting pretty interesting i have heard...

[bandwagonaol]

great video. poor guy.

[avenue22]

i worked with Warhol during 70s in THE FACTORY...i was assisting him in producing silk screen portraits of Mao...

[heart106]

so what's your opinion on the Foundation??

[warholisthebest]

you are so lucky i would give anything to have had a chance to work with andy warhol

rip drella

[stinkriverstudios]

Bravo. Amen... Finally someone with some passion and brains..

[Umdaschal]

for sure..at the age of 26..

[masameus]

Authentication of Warhol? Warhol himself would laugh so hard. Well, actually, he wouldn't; he would grin mischievously.

[heart106]

that's the point, so can you tell me though if you had a warhol yourself and someone would come to you telling you that it's not his work although they have previously authenticated it????

[heart106]

that's right...isnt the whole concept funny???but poor guy..why should he suffer bacause of them???Andy Warhol Foundation Board????there is an excellent blogspot on it...

[heart106]

The irony in the row is that Warhol himself questioned the idea of "original" art - choosing everyday items as subjects and producing thousands of prints of the same work.

Many of the prints of his most famous works were produced at his famous studio The Factory, often under his supervision.

But some works were printed from acetates of the originals by people Warhol had not even met, according to the Independent.

[andywarholpainting]

is a real david and goliath story, a small groups battle against a greedy corporation, milking millions off the name of andy warhol all in the name of charity. Its incredible how a group of lawyers and dealers are able to use a few so called "art historians" with no first hand knowlege of warhol or his work, ignoring the accounts of people who were actually working with the artist, in order to drive up the prices of the works in their cartel.

[heart106]

The Andy Warhol Authentication Board has decreed that only artworks the artist was directly involved in producing can be considered a Warhol original, according to reports in the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph in the UK.

[heart106]

In Imagine: Andy Warhol — Denied (BBC One), Alan Yentob was wondering: what must it feel like to buy an expensive painting by a famous artist, only to be told — after the artist has died, and the authentication of his work is in the hands of a cabal whose no-comeback verdicts can incinerate the value of a canvas — that your painting is deemed to be a fake?

[Dealit707]

OH!!....Bo Hoo!!

The very nature of the way that Warhol produced a lot of his silkscreens should have been a warning to art investors, as to the danger of shelling out a pile of cash for one of these supposed "originals".

Many of Warhol's works are known Andy "originals", unfortunately a lot of greedy buyers took a chance on some of Warhol's borderline originals.

Moral of the story: "LET THE BUYER BEWARE!!"