Pre-pop art, Andy Warhol found his first 15 minutes of fame on Madison Avenue

By Peter Munro
Updated February 27 2017 - 2:08am, first published 12:15am
Art Gallery of NSW curator Nicholas Chambers with one of Andy Warhol's shop window designs for perfume. Photo: James Brickwood
Art Gallery of NSW curator Nicholas Chambers with one of Andy Warhol's shop window designs for perfume. Photo: James Brickwood

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once said. Not for him the lot of the starving artist. In 1949, the 20-year-old unknown illustrator with acne arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh with a portfolio of drawings and plans to find fame and fortune in advertising.

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