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(1949) Unknown Andy Warhol Discovered

(1949) Unknown Andy Warhol Discovered  Andy-Warhol ( Gold Thinker) Early 1960's Andy Warhol Painting--"A Gold Marilyn 'Comparable' Masterpiece" "EVIDENCE RESEARCH WEBSITE" Viewing Only
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Unknown Andy Warhol Discovered in Carnegie Mellon Archive by artnet Critic Blake Gopnik

It didn't take that much to unearth the new Warhol that I'm revealing today. To find the picture, which turns out to be the second work that Warhol ever published, all I had to do was take a ten-hour train ride from New York to Pittsburgh, head to the archives of Carnegie Mellon University, where Warhol studied art, discover that they have files dedicated to ancient student publications, get the archivist, Julia Corrin, to pull the box with the student magazine called Cano, leaf through every page of every issue of the thing and then, hey presto, on the second page of the last number published, in April of 1949, spot a full-page illustration that could only be by the master. Or rather, the not-quite-master-yet...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/unknown-andy-warhol-discovered-in-carnegie-mellon-archive-by-artnet-critic-blake-gopnik-247524

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