Agosto Bugarin waited 30 years before to try to sell the silk screening of Warhol's "Liz" through a fine gallery. However, the Warhol Foundation still he was tracked down and sued, accusing Bugarin stealing work

Former bodyguard Andy Warhol for more than 30 years aiding stolen from the artist's silkscreen "Liz", but was still caught in the act - when you try to sell it through a fine gallery in Manhattan. The Warhol Foundation has filed for Agusto of Bugarin in court and requires the return raboty.

In 1987 after the death of Andy Warhol's Fund appealed to the former bodyguard of the artist with the requirement to return all in his possession (charitable Foundation is the sole owner of all unsold works). Agosto Bugarin returned eight works, but the silkscreen "Liz" in 1964, then cost several hundred thousand dollars, left Seba.

believed in the Warhol Foundation, Bugarin working Warhol several years, he decided to wait until they die, all who could refute his version of acquisition, and then decided to sell it. He put it in Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan that looked very strange, because this gallery is mainly engaged in the sale of lottery graphs. The cost of Warhol silk-screen printing, similar to this "Liz", now on the art market reaches 20 to 30 million dollarov.

version of Bugarin, Warhol gave him the job in gratitude for what he supposedly helped with the repairs in the apartment of a new lover artist John Gould (John Gould) in 1984. And like Warhol asked the bodyguard not to tell anyone about the repair, so as not wanted ahead of time to advertise relations with Gould. However, this version has no reason, so K. Gould moved to new York house Warhol for many years before. "There is no evidence that Warhol gave or could give the bodyguard painting for hundreds of thousands of dollars - the size of several annual salaries of Bugarin," says Warhol Foundation in his claim. Even in the journal of the Warhol has a record of that kind of silkscreen "Liz" 1964 was stolen or lost. So now 60-year-old bodyguard with very few chances to be justified in code.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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