There's no specific price listed for the portrait, but the Post have speculated that it could sell "for potential millions."
Andy Warhol’s Long-Lost Portrait of Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Resurfaces in DelawareBY FRANCESCA ATON
July 31, 2024 1:17pm
American singer, songwriter, and actress Debbie Harry and American artist Andy Warhol. GETTY IMAGESAn Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry that was thought to be lost has resurfaced in rural Delaware. The 1985 portrait, along with a signed disk of 10 digital image files by Warhol, is now being made available for sale, although the New York Post, which first reported the news, did not specify where.
“Andy called and asked me to model for a portrait he was going to create live, at Lincoln Center, as a promotion for the Commodore Amiga computer. It was a pretty amazing event.”
. . . Harry has said of the works,
“I think there are only two copies of this computer-generated Warhol in existence and I have one of them.”
Now, the location of the second portrait has been revealed. For nearly 40 years, it was displayed in the home of Commodore’s digital technician Jeff Bruette, who taught the artist how to use the computer.
- Bruette is planning a private sale of the Harry portrait and original Amiga disk containing eight images Warhol made during the Amiga World interview, plus an experimental image created during the production of the MTV show Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes, Page Six reported on Monday.
“For just as long, any time someone has seen the portrait of Debbie hanging on my wall, or learned that I was ‘that guy who worked with Andy,’ especially after the recent explosion of NFTs and digital art, anyone who’s heard the story has been completely riveted. I thought it was time the world got to interact with this extraordinary artwork the way it was meant to be experienced.”
- Bruette added that “parting with this collection now gives me the chance to help find it the right home. And, to be honest, could make retirement just a little bit more comfortable.”
Though the price for the Harry portrait remains undisclosed, but the Post speculated that it could sell “for potential millions.”
- A series of five NFTs made using restored Amiga images from obsolete floppy disks in 2014 fetched $3.38 million at auction with Christie’s in 2021.
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- At the time, he told Amiga World magazine that he planned to distribute the images, but he never succeeded in doing so.
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