Warhol Capote Intellectual Property

Andy Warhol, VIP Ticket — Studio 54, 1978, synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas, 8 x 14 in., photographed at NYPL by @cmonstah Los Angelena and greg.org hero Carolina Miranda just posted a Friday night signoff: the Studio 54 drink ticket painting Warhol gave to Truman Capote in 1978. The painting went to the New York Public Library as part of Capote’s archive in 1984, and because it’s archive, not art, it’s not catalogued with basic information like the dimensions. I measured it; it is 8 x 14 inches. Which is around Warhol’s preferred size for gift paintings. [This 26 inch tall variation, stamped and copyrighted, signed and certified as a Warhol by Fred Hughes, was not a gift.] Because of the Warhol Foundation’s 2021 copyright claim on the painting, based on its going on view in a special collections exhibit, the NYPL cannot publish an image of this object in their collection. It’s widely repeated that Warhol designed the drink tickets, but I doubt it. There’s all kinds of…

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