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Would You Pay $195 Million for an Andy Warhol?

In 2022, somebody did just that. But why? There’s a reason the bad boy of Pop Art is still important and still a rock star.

Andrew Jazprose Hill
ILLUMINATION-Curated
4 min readJan 24, 2024

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Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–1962) at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Gorup de Basenez via Wikimedia Commons (2008)

You may not think the iconic Andy Warhol is in the same league as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, but some people think enough of him to pay top…

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Andrew Jazprose Hill
ILLUMINATION-Curated

In the Jazprose Diaries on Substack, I write about Art, Culture, and Race with a mindful memoirist's eye. Come on in. The water's fine.