with the sad passing of  a true Hollywood icon last week, a portrait of Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol is expected to fetch up to $30m at an auction in New York.

“Liz #5″ is owned by hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen. The 1963 silkscreen will be sold at Phillips de Pury at its contemporary art sale on May 12.

The portrait shows the legendary actress smiling and her eyelids covered in blue eye shadow.

Warhol painted a series of Liz Taylor portraits in 1963, the same year the legendary actress was paid $1 million for her role in the movie “Cleopatra.”

The current auction record for Warhol was set four years ago when Christie’s got $71.7 million for the artist’s 1963 “Green Car Crash.”

Source: Wall Street Journal

Last year I posted this trailer for a mini film called Influencers, well below is the full version.
Enjoy…

I saw this guy on Seven days a couple of days ago and just didnt get what he was all about, was he telling us he was rich and had made money, or was he trying to tell us that he wants to be rich and this is how to go about doing it. Whatever his message was I just didnt know what the hell he was talking about, pulling up to the gallery in his Chrysler limo and wearing a red suit. For me those people who have money do not need to flaunt it and tell others “Look at me I am so incredibly rich, however those that don’t have money and are living off credit are the ones who flaunt it the most. They are usually the ones you will see in a club with a hoard of girls around them and bottles of champagne on their table, of which they will not be even drinking, all you will see them doing is pouring glasses for the many girls they have around the table.

So Maximillian Wiedman, if you are reading this, what are you all about, email me! enjoy the video…

I just love this so much, so cool, and definitely for very special moments in you life!

THIS AND THE MJ WARHOL ARE FAVORITES, THATS WHY I WORK NONE STOP COS I LIVE FOR THIS STUFF…

Andy Warhol has never looked better—to an audience of contemporary art collectors and dealers, that is. Last night, Sotheby’s sold an Andy Warhol painting titled Self-Portrait sold to an anonymous phone bidder for $32.6 million (including the buyer’s premium), setting a new record for a Warhol self portrait at auction.

At least six bidders competed for Self Portrait, an acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas painting that was painted in 1986. The large iconic and rare painting, which measures 108″ by 108″, is from Warhol’s final series of Self Portraits – widely acknowledged as the most important of his career. The estimate was $10 million to $15 million.