Week in Review: A $100M Warhol from China? Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin and Fake ‘Picassos’ Make a Feminist Statement

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Week in Review: A $100M Warhol from China? Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin and Fake ‘Picassos’ Make a Feminist Statement

3 min read  ·  12 Jul 2024

Kirsha Kaechele admitted to forging the Picassos she displayed David Walsh's museum. Photo courtesy of MONA.

This was the week the "Picassos" on show in David Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) were, in fact, new, painted by his artist wife, Kirsha Kaechele. In New York, an Andy Warhol Mao, one of his largest portraits of the Communist leader, is on show at Gagosian with a reported $100m price tag. It has prompted speculation that its has been consigned from China. Master of irony, Warhol would have been delighted.

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New York: Andy Warhol's Mao presented by Gagosian could have a $100m price tag and the seller is probably based in China, ARTnews reports.

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Houston: Shahzia Sikander’s monumental sculpture of a goddess was beheaded by vandals. Police are studying footage from the University of Houston crime scene.

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London: Yayoi Kusama’s giant pumpkin will stand beside the Serpentine lake for the summer, an outdoor display co-organized by the Serpentine Galleries.

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Hobart: Kirsha Kaechele painted the “Picassos” she hung in the Ladies Lounge in her husband David Walsh’s ever controversial museum, she admitted.

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Los Angeles: Alex Israel is among the artists who have donated works for Jane Fonda and Larry Gagosian selling show to raise funds for the actor-activist’s campaign against drilling for oil in California.

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Market: Jean Dubuffet led Sotheby's $3.66m Modern & Contemporary Discoveries online auction. HENI News

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London: Kerry James Marshall will get a special 70th birthday gift in 2025 when the Royal Academy of Arts presents a major solo show.

In other news

Profile: Dorothy Lichtenstein, who led her late husband Roy Lichtenstein’s foundation and oversaw the gifting of his collection to US museums, has died. She was 84.

Saudi Arabia: Hartwig Fischer, the former director of the British Museum, will take the helm of a new museum of world culture in Riyadh.

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