Death and Disaster:: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy's Millions

By Paul Alexander

Book Overview

Beginning with the 1987 death of Andy Warhol, the author of Rough Magic traces the ensuing dispute between the Warhol estate and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the artist's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679432736
• ISBN13: 9780679432739
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Villard
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A Terrific Read

Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy's Millions by Paul Alexander. Now this is some book. Andy was a brilliant businessman who had the magic touch, though he was sad most of his life. At the time of his death his empire (not only art and collectibles, but vast real estate holdings and income properties nationwide) was 1/2 a BILLION dollars, second only to Picasso at 1 billion, and Andy died young. His soft and crafty management of the beautiful people, and then the tragedy of his death, and then the catastrophe of the jackals tearing apart his fortune (the lawyers got most of it) is a tale of sheer madness chronicled by a journalist who knew many of the principals and went to most of the trials - for years. Andy once tipped his hand: "A lady asked me what I loved most. That's when I started painting money."