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Duchess of Warhol: Estate of Brigid Berlin
Doyle is honored to auction The Duchess of Warhol: The Estate of Brigid Berlin on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 10am. The sale will offer a fascinating range of original art, memorabilia and furnishings from Brigid's Manhattan apartment.
Few could combine uptown style with downtown chic quite like Brigid Berlin. Daughter of Honey and Richard Berlin, the straight-laced chairman of the Hearst media empire, a multitude of finishing schools failed to corral Brigid. Her marriage at age 19 to a Manhattan window dresser didn't last but did introduce her to Andy Warhol, who worked down the block.
Enamored with Brigid’s Fifth Avenue upbringing and carefree adulthood, Warhol dubbed her The Duchess and welcomed her into the developing world of The Factory. The two became best friends over time. It was Brigid who introduced Andy to the tape recorder and Polaroid camera, resulting in one of the best documented art movements in history. Brigid, barely clothed in most photographs, made “Tit Prints," kept trip diaries, appeared in Chelsea Girls in 1966, recorded The Velvet Underground and staggered audiences with highly personal stage performances. What is often understated in recounting her relationship with Warhol is that Brigid Berlin was one of the most influential and risk-taking artists of the 20th century.
In 1986, Brigid Berlin bought her apartment on East 28th Street, nestled between her Factory and Fifth Avenue worlds. Described by The New York Times as “a ladylike pink-and-green Palm Beach fantasia," Berlin’s floral-wallpapered apartment was filled with pictures of pugs, her elegant portrait by Joe Eula, needlepoints of New York Post covers, hundreds of books on the Factory scene and a signed photograph depicting Andy with the Pope.
In Brigid's apartment, worlds collide to dazzling effect representing her absolutely unique point of view.
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Peter Costanzo
Executive Director, Books, Autographs & PhotographsLot Number: Lowest
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1121: [BOOKS-PHOTOGRAPHY] Group of approximately fourteen large format monographs on photography subjects.Est. $200-$300
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1124: BILLY NAME Andy Recording Brigid Polk on Telephone, 1967. New York: taken 1967, printed later.Est. $300-$500
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1125: BILLY NAME Two monographs inscribed to Brigid Berlin, with an original photograph.Est. $300-$500
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1127: [ANDY WARHOL/EDIE SEDGWICK] Film Culture Number 45 [The Andy Warhol Issue]. New York: 1968.Est. $400-$600
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1128: ROBERT CREELEY and ROBERT INDIANA Numbers. Stuttgart and Dusseldorf: Edition Domberger and GalerieEst. $1,500-$2,000
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1129: ANDY WARHOL and GERARD MALANGA Intransit the Andy Warhol - Gerard Malanga Monster Issue. Eugene:Est. $250-$350
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1130: [POETRY] BILL BERKSON and GEORGE SCHNEEMAN. Ted Berrigan. Austin: Cuneiform Press, 2009.Est. $250-$350
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1132: BRIGID BERLIN Archive of photographs depicting or kept by Brigid Berlin, 1960s onward.Est. $500-$800
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1133: BRIGID BERLIN A manuscript diary and poetry album, circa 1967, a precursor to Brigid Berlin's TripEst. $3,000-$5,000Lot Passed
1134: ARTCHIE STRIPS Brigid Berlin's inscribed copy of Artchie Strips with the original legal waiverEst. $7,000-$10,000Lot Passed
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1136: BRIGID BERLIN Typed letter signed to Andy Warhol. [New York:] 7 April 1974.Est. $600-$900
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1138: BRIGID BERLIN Archive of postcards and correspondence items sent to Brigid Berlin.Est. $1,000-$1,500
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1139: BRIGID BERLIN Calendars from 1971-73. Two calendars from late 1971 through 1973 with most daysEst. $200-$400
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1141: BRIGID BERLIN or ANDY WARHOL, attributed to Three self-portrait Polaroid photographs.Est. $3,000-$5,000
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