Hugh Grant Sells Warhol



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That can of beans that "Hugh Threw"? It must have been Campbell's. Apparently, the jinxy hack-tor is a fan of Andy Warhol (like taste to like taste; Averted Gaze). From The New York Times via HuffPo:

"Only a few people knew that when Gerald Fagginato, a London dealer, bought one of Warhol's famous 1963 paintings of Elizabeth Taylor at Sotheby's in New York in November 2001 for $3.5 million, he was bidding on Mr. Grant's behalf.

"Measuring 40 inches square, the painting is from a series of 13, each with a different-colored background. Mr. Grant's 'Liz (Colored Liz)' is set against a vibrant turquoise blue. Now Mr. Grant has decided to sell his 'Liz' at Christie's in New York. While the auction house will not confirm that he is the seller, experts familiar with his collection have identified it as his painting."

We are not a fan of Modernism (Or post-modernism, for that matter, post-Picasso and post-Duchamp), which oftentimes is naught else but utter shit repackaged and calculated to rasp bourgois sensibilities (For further reference, see: Christo, and his cohort in art crime, "Jean-Fraud") -- Sort of like Hugh Grant's breathtakingly awful performance in the execrable "Mickey Blue Eyes (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment)."

Although Hughdie's career has never come back since he went black ... Divine Brown, at least, can claim some good luck from the lurid .."encounter."