CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
‘ANDY WARHOL’
It seems ironic that the artist whose work and words more or less predicted the future of contemporary culture should have been so thwarted with regard to his own legacy.
With the possible exceptions of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley there can probably be no recent figure who has left behind such a vast quantity of work, debate, controversy, legal fees, personal possessions, and sheer unending product in the years subsequent to their death.
Even the Sotheby’s catalogue for the sale of the contents of Warhol’s town house ran to four volumes. In fact, Warhol left so many leftovers that they had to build a special museum, in Pittsburgh, to put them all in - and the rest they had to leave in a New York warehouse.
The film unravels the complexities of the various claims to Warhol’s fortune.
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