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We find a missing painting Warhol $ 30 million

Portrait of the actress and model Farrah Fawcett Andy Warhol's work was discovered during the filming of reality TV in the apartment of her common law husband, Ryan O'Neal

If you are hiding at home missing Andy Warhol's work worth $ 30 million, then it is better to remove it from the prominent place before you to declare to the crew of a new reality show and start working. And if you still do not, then followed by a film crew was coming to you and a private investigator, as happened with Ryan O'Neal, her husband the late civil actress and model Farrah Fawcett. It turned out that Warhol silkscreen, long considered lost, most likely, quietly hangs in the bedroom O'Neill directly over his bed, which was discovered when she accidentally fell into the shot during the filming of the first episode of a program dedicated to the actor and his daughter, " Family O'Neill, Ryan and Tatum, "to channel OWN.

To search for works of art from the collection of Terah a private detective was hired by the University of Texas, alma mater late actress, where she once studied art. In his will star "Charlie's Angels," wrote to his collection home university, but when the school two years ago began collecting were in different places items from the collection, it appears that one of the two portraits Fawcett, created in 1980 by Andy Warhol, the mysterious disappeared. Meanwhile, these two portraits - the most valuable exhibits from the collection of the actress.

on an assumption about the location of a portrait of university representatives was originally turned the book Tatum O'Neal, in which she describes in detail the father's house " All the walls are hung with photographs of the family of the good old days. Is there a poster movie "Paper Moon" in 1973, and a portrait of Andy Warhol of Terah ».

Craig Nevius, a friend of Fawcett, who helped the university in the search, told the channel ABC, that the appearance of portrait of the reality show was not a surprise to him: "I told the representatives of the university: be patient, this man is so vain, that certainly shows a portrait of the transfer." It is noteworthy, but his will did not mention Fawcett O'Neal, with whom he lived as long as 30 years. Some friends of the late actress maintain that it disposes of O'Neal Farrah legacy after her death. Representatives of O'Neill, in turn, say that the actor does not breached the last will of Fawcett, and that "everything that is written in the will of Terah, will be executed properly».

On Saturday, June 25 Two years have passed since the death of Farrah Fawcett, but the issues related to its will and inheritance, and not settled. Until now under investigation as to the whereabouts of the missing works from its collection, including Warhol's silk-screen printing - the most noticeable, but, alas, is not the only one.

It is unknown how the fate of this portrait in future. As for the most Farrah Fawcett, its memory is perpetuated in other American museum - in February, the stewards of its assets transferred to a red bathing suit, in which she starred in the famous poster in 1976, the Smithsonian Museum of American History. And last summer photo Farrah, recorded at the Warhol Polaroid and served as the basis for the found the portrait was sold at auction at Sotheby's for 43 $ 750.

Prepared by Mary Estrova AI

Sources: abcnews.go.com , artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru


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