Huge get together will rejoice first exhibit of Edie Sedgwick’s artwork

Page Six hears {that a} small portal to Andy Warhol’s New York will briefly open up on twenty third Street on Monday night time.

We’re completely informed that an auctioneer is mounting the first-ever exhibition of Edie Sedgwick’s artwork, of all locations, the Chelsea Hotel.

And they’re anticipating a Downtown crowd the likes of which hasn’t been seen for the reason that Mercer Arts Center fell over.

The lodge — the place Warhol and his most well-known “famous person” shared a room whereas capturing “Chelsea Girl” — has appeared perilously near shuttering throughout an apparently countless sequence of renovations and adjustments in possession that went on for greater than a decade. So it appears one thing of a miracle that its open to host a celebration for its former resident.

We’re informed punk godhead Danny Fields is anticipated, as are Sedgwick’s widower Michael Post, her brother, John, and Johnny Ramone’s widow, Linda. Also on the checklist are artwork world bigwigs like Simon de Pury, Roselee Goldberg and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Vincent Fremont, plus Christy Turlington, Darren Aronofsky, Theodora Richards, Kristen McMenamy and Ryan McGuiness, amongst others.

Sedgwick habitually fell asleep — regardless of a number of warnings from Leonard Cohen, reportedly — with candles burning in her room within the Chelsea establishment, and as soon as famously set the room on fireplace.

There can be 15 items on show, largely pencil sketches. Her topics embrace nudes (together with a self portrait), horses and different animals.

The items are being placed on sale by RR Auctions, and the get together is being hosted by Bobby Livingston, an SVP on the public sale home. The on-line sale closes on November 17. Pieces are anticipated to go for as much as $40,000.

Sedgwick, who was portrayed by Michelle Williams within the 2007 film “Factory Girl,” appeared in additional than a dozen Warhol films in 1965 and was thought of his muse whereas they labored collectively.

She died of drug-related causes in 1971.