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Ryan O’Neal Pilfers Andy Warhol Portrait As He Just Keeps Getting Weirder

by Michael Park on June 23, 2011 0 Comments

Serial daughter-flirter Ryan O’ Neal has been accused of stealing an Andy Warhol painting of Farrah Fawcett. The painting of the Charlie’s Angels star is said to be worth $30 million despite being a gash piece of half-arsed pop-art that not even Warhol himself would have been proud of.

The 70-year-old nutjob currently has the portrait of Farrah hanging above his bed even though the actress – who died in June 2009 – bequeathed the portrait to the University of Texas, where she studied before she became famous. Not that she was self-obsessed in any way, you understand. It’s just unfortunate that the UT hasn’t had many notable graduates.

According to Star Magazine, the university has hired a private investigator to establish the location of the missing artwork despite most people on earth now knowing that it is hanging above Mr O’Neal’s bed.

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Hugh Grant Sells Painting, Gets Richer

by Stuart Heritage on November 14, 2007 1 Comment

Hugh Grant Painting auction Andy Warhol Liz Taylor $23.7 millionAlthough nobody knows what Andy Warhol was thinking when he made a screen print of Elizabeth Taylor's face in 1963, chances are it was probably "I just hope that one day this painting makes the stuttering git from Music And Lyrics rich."

And what do you know, it has. Last night Hugh Grant auctioned off the Andy Warhol screen print of his entitled “Liz (Colored Liz”) in New York, and sold it for $23.7 million – seven times what he'd originally paid for it. Nobody knows what Hugh Grant will spend all this new Warhol money on – maybe he'll invest it back into art or try to develop a new kind of aerodynamic baked bean that flies better when you hurl it at a photographer – but the main thing is that it keeps Hugh Grant so busy that he doesn't get the chance to make any more films for a while.

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Although nobody knows what Andy Warhol was thinking when he made a screen print of Elizabeth Taylor's face in 1963, chances are it was probably "I just hope that one day this painting makes the stuttering git from Music And Lyrics rich." And what do you know, it has. Last night Hugh Grant auctioned off the Andy Warhol screen print of his entitled “Liz (Colored Liz”) in New York, and sold it for $23.7 million - seven times what he'd originally paid for it. Nobody knows what Hugh Grant will spend all this new Warhol money on - maybe he'll invest it back into art or try to develop a new kind of aerodynamic baked bean that flies better when you hurl it at a photographer - but the main thing is that it keeps Hugh Grant so busy that he doesn't get the chance to make any more films for a while.