15 minutes of fame

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Tuesday, September 6, 1983.

"Pia had on a beautiful ring - a diamond with blue sapphires, and she was wearing a Bob Mackie, red, white, and with a blue star. It really was a beautiful dress. Slit up to the ass and when the wind blew once, one of the photographers groaned, "Oh my God I missed a pussy shot." And the funniest line was one Benjamin heard. When they showed the portraits, one of the photographers said, "How could Andy Warhol sink to such mediocrity?" and the photographer he said "What do you mean? He's famous for sinking to mediocrity."

Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries, page 526

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Stephen Shore (American, Born 1947).

Andy Warhol & Lou Reed, New York City, 1966.

Gelatin silver print. Signed, titled and dated in ink en verso.

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Diana Vreeland Rampant, 1984.

Collage, silkscreen ink and colored paper collage on paper.

Stamped "Estate of Andy Warhol" three times, and foundation numbered in pencil lower right over the stamp.

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1982 menswear campaign for Halston.

Offset lithograph printed in colors. Signed "Andy Warhol" in plate.

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Candy Darling.

Polaroid, executed in 1969.

Stamped © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. en verso.

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Santa Claus, 1981.

Polaroid, stamped © Andy Warhol LR.

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Nine Jackies, 1964.

Synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas.

Stamped © 2009 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society en verso.

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Rorschach, 1984.

Acrylic on linen.

Stamped "©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc." en verso.

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Monday, October 13, 1980.

"Bob picked me up in a limo and we picked up São to go to the Jackie O. party for Diana Vreeland's book Allure at the International Center for Photography at 94th and Fifth. It was a small party, only seventy people were allowed. São said that a robbery was just foiled at the Carlyle. Three gunmen at 4 A.M. I scared her when I told her they were probably there because they knew she was. And I believe that.

Jackie O. arrived. I was afraid to take pictures so I gave one of the newspaper photographers my camera to take a picture with. Chris Hemphill who worked on the book was in heaven, he made it so that I had to sit next to him. He's just always rubbed me the wrong way. And on the jacket it was said he was (laughs) "associated with Andy Warhol." His date was Deborah Turbeville. A trembling kid behind a stairway asked if he could take my picture. He said, "I'm an artist."

Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries, page 335.

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Marie-Chantal Claire, Crown Princess of Greece.

Polaroid, executed in 1985.

Stamped © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. en verso.

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John Stockwell, Calvin Klein, Andy Warhol, and Tom Styron at a party for Elton John on the Peking Boat at the South Street Seaport, 1980.

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Joan Collins [1985],  Jane Fonda [1980],  Carly Simon [1980], & Karen Kain [1983].

Five polaroid photographs.

Four stamped © Andy Warhol in the margin. All five bear 'Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Andy Warhol Foundation' credit stamps en verso.

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Lips.

Ink and Dr. Martin's Aniline dye on Strathmore paper. 

Stamped ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 1998.1.1466

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Left: Warhol at Colorado State University Right: CSU Center for the Arts today

Monday, August 31, 1981, Colorado.

"In front of the museums they have three cans that are about thirty feet high and they look like big sculptures by Oldenberg, big handpainted Campbell's Tomato Soup  Cans. One of the kids did them, I guess. And every room here at the motel is cans with flowers in them, and I mean, I'm so tired of Campbell's Soup Can I could throw up. But the show's cute, it's just in one room and it's all prints, and we stayed there about an hour then I got back and I took a Valium and I couldn't sleep."

Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries, page 404.

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Honeycomb Yellow Cake, c. 1959.

Hand-colored blotted ink line drawing on paper.

Friday, August 8, 1982.

"It was a depressing day, my birthday. Ran into Robert Hayes and he said that Greg Gorman the Interview photographer had called and they wanted me over on 18th Street near Fifth to be in a publicity photo with Dustin Hoffman who was in drag filming Tootsie. When we got back to the set, Dustin was wearing something more gay. And it was going to be Dustin's birthday on the eight and I told him it was mine, too. (laughs) Met Dustin's new wife, very pretty, who looks like Debra Winger. So many of these girls now do. But the baby looks like one of those babies Barbara Streisand would have with Elliott Gould."

Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries, page 456/457. 

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Self-Portrait, 1986.

Graphite on paper. 

Stamped © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. en verso.

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Liza Minnelli, 1977.

Polaroid, stamped © Andy Warhol in the margin.

Friday June 30, 1978.

"Went over to Halston's and Liza arrived around 12:00 with her new boyfriend, Mark, the stage manager. They just met, after six months of working on the show. He asked her is she wanted to see paradise, and she said yes, she asked him where it was, and (laughs) he said in his room, so they went there and fucked. He does sculpture in marble. He's very good-looking and very big - either Jewish or Italian. I can't tell which. Halston was sweet, trying to get Stevie to start an art collection and trying to convince Liza she should have me do a nude portrait of her, so she was doing her number, saying how could she go nude with her body, and she was taking her tits out and the guy was getting turned on, and then she was saying, "How would I cover my fuzzy?"

Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries, page 147.