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Painting that Andy Warhol did in a New York restaurant turns up in Austria

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Painting that Andy Warhol did in a New York restaurant turns up in Austria

A forgotten Andy Warhol work made up of handprints, created in 1985 at a short-lived New York restaurant called The Strand, has turned up in Austria and is valued at $8 million. Restaurateur Peter Herrero had asked his regulars to paint their own tables, and one habitué, Dolly Fox, called her friend Andy Warhol to help. Fox, a former editor at Warhol's Interview magazine, told Page Six that they did the painting in 10 minutes. The table had passed hands for decades, with its last owner, Reinhard Diethardt, purchasing it for $2 million in 2005. Diethardt recently commissioned Vienna-based filmmaker Robert Hofferer for a museum project dedicated to his collection, where the table will play a central role. Fox will reunite with the table in October, saying "It's found! I wasn't lying. There's proof."

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