Thursday, April 5, 2012

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$5 Find Could Be $2 Million Andy Warhol Sketch

4 April 2012
This $5 garage sale find could be an early sketch made by Andy Warhol around age 11.

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This $5 garage sale find could be an early sketch made by Andy Warhol around age 11.

A possible early Andy Warhol drawing has been discovered in an unlikely place.

English businessman Andy Fields purchased a drawing by legendary art patron Gertrude Stein at a Las Vegas garage sale for the astonishingly low price of $5, a notable find in and of itself. The seller's aunt had once babysat for Andy Warhol, and in the process of reframing the Stein drawing, Fields found what could be a drawing done by an adolescent Warhol.

The image is said to be of 1930s singer Rudy Valee, with bright red lips and sketched on a background of yellow, orange and green squares.

A value of over $2 million has been placed on the work, but the drawing has yet to be 100% authenticated.

Fields says he hopes the work will be put on display in a museum for all to see.