Generally you don’t miss your ex-husband, however you do miss all his Warhols.
A supply tells us socialite Libbie Mugrabi — who was beforehand married to main Andy Warhol collector David Mugrabi — has snapped up her personal work by the artist at public sale.
Libbie was the successful bidder on the pop artist’s “Electrical Chair,” for $201,600 at Phillips London’s night public sale of recent and up to date works, a supply revealed. It consists of a set of ten screenprints on woven paper and was a part of the artist’s Demise and Catastrophe sequence.
The socialite filed for divorce from David, whose household has a $5 billion artwork assortment and owns the world’s largest personal assortment of Warhols, in 2018.
Their divorce turned referred to as one of many nastiest in NYC and included a battle over blue-chip artwork works together with a $500,000 Keith Haring sculpture the pair allegedly bodily tussled over at their Higher East Aspect condominium.
Whereas they settled in December 2020, a decide ordered the couple to swap numerous artworks.
Nonetheless, when Libbie’s loot arrived she filed a police report in Southampton, accusing David of making an attempt to dump broken paintings on her. She claimed the $2 million Warhol “Statue of Liberty,” was water stained.
The Phillips London sale raked in $21 million.
Additionally of be aware: A piece by rising artwork star Anna Weyant, 27, who has made headlines for sky excessive gross sales, in addition to relationship a lot older mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, went for $274,000, 3 times its estimated value
