Dutch Town Hall Accidentally Throws Out Andy Warhol Portrait Worth $17,000

Dutch town hall says it may have accidentally thrown out Andy Warhol work

By Issy Ronald and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Though Andy Warhol famously created art from garbage cans, he may not have expected his works to end up in the trash. But that is exactly where officials at a Dutch town hall think one of his silkscreen prints may have landed, after it was accidentally disposed of with the “bulky waste.” The 1980s print depicting the Netherlands’ then-Queen Beatrix in Warhol’s famous pop art style disappeared wh…

Warhol artwork was 'probably' binned during Dutch town hall renovation

Maashorst municipality acknowledges that results of the investigation into the missing Andy Warhol artworks kills any hope of ever finding them again.

ThePatriotLight - Bungling council workers BIN valuable 1980s Andy Warhol print and 45 other artworks during clear-out

ThePatriotLight - TOWN hall bunglers are in the soup for dumping a valuable Andy Warhol print during a clear-out.They are thought to have put the 1980s silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix in the trash along with 45 other artworks during a building renovation.It is unlikely any of the discarded pictures, together worth nearly £20,000, will be recovered.Hans van der Pas, mayor of the Maashorst municipality in the Netherlands, said: “That’s not how y…

Bungling council workers BIN Warhol print & other artworks during clear-out

TOWN hall bunglers are in the soup for dumping a valuable Andy Warhol print during a clear-out. They are thought to have put the 1980s silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix in the trash along with 45 other artworks during a building renovation. It is unlikely any of the discarded pictures, together worth nearly £20,000, will be recovered. Hans van der Pas, mayor of the Maashorst municipality in the Netherlands, said: “That’s not how you treat valuab…

Dutch Town Hall Accidentally Throws Out Andy Warhol Portrait Worth $17,000

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in front of Andy Warhol portraits There are plenty of stories about people stumbling across some incredibly valuable artwork that was discarded by someone who didn’t know what they had on their hands. That second group now includes a town hall in the Netherlands that is no longer in possession of a work of art by Andy Warhol that apparently ended up in the trash during a renovation. Andy Warhol was one of the mos…

She was taken away along with the garbage during the renovation of the town hall