Newspapers and magazines alike expressed consternation. Several commentators, it turned out, were distressed by these collectibles in what snowballed into a minor object panic. These last items drew no small amount of scrutiny laced with no small amount of disdain. The auction also featured lots of more than seven thousand collectibles that included a Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog beach towel, a Superman Touch–Tone telephone, and hundreds of cookie jars in different shapes and sizes. Among the myriad items up for bids were Picasso sketches, pieces of Art Deco furniture, Tiffany silverware, and scores of abstract expressionist paintings. Warhol had died from complications of gall bladder surgery more than a year before, and he left behind an Upper East Side townhouse filled with possessions that would soon net over twenty–five million dollars for what would become the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Sotheby’s auction house in New York City had earlier announced a ten–day estate sale for Andy Warhol’s effects that was to run from April 23 to May 3, and a number of obser vers were alarmed. Sometime during the spring of 1988 - maybe the second week of April?- cookie jars became potentially hazardous objects. By Scott Herring Pathological Collectibles
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