Dorothy Podber: Dead At 75
From the New York Times:
Dorothy Podber, a wild child of the New York art scene in the 1950s and ’60s who is probably best known for brandishing a pistol and putting a bullet through the forehead of Marilyn Monroe’s likenesses on a stack of Andy Warhol’s paintings, died at her apartment in Manhattan on Feb. 9. She was 75.DANG! How scary was she if Andy Warhol thought she was scary!
Podber asked Warhol if she could shoot a stack of the "Marilyn" paintings; he apparently thought that she wanted to take pictures of them and consented.
But she produced a pistol and fired at them, penetrating three or four. One of them, "Shot Red Marilyn," with a repaired bullet hole over the left eyebrow, sold for $4 million in 1989, at the time setting a record at auction for a Warhol work.
"After she left," Factory regular Billy Name said, “Andy came over to me and said: 'Please make sure Dorothy doesn’t come over here anymore. She’s too scary.'"
Dorothy Podber - R.I.P.
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