, 93, told The Post that he suddenly “needed some dough” last year, so he sold a 1977 portrait of himself by the Pop Art pioneer to his lawyer, Mitchell Cantor, for $100,000, under the condition that he could buy it back. , which I [was] sure to get back,” Pivar said of the painting, which featured his angular face against a backdrop of blues, black, and aqua.In March, Pivar reached out to buy the portrait back, just days before the six-month deadline.
Pivar claimed that Cantor had breached their contract by not allowing him to repurchase the artwork and had acted negligently by refusing to explain to his legal client where the portrait was. He sued Cantor and his corporation, Concordia Fine Art Inc., for $5 million each in damages, reasoning that the value of Warhol’s painting of his mug was somehow comparable to the artist’s portraits of Blondie front-woman Debbie Harry — one of which
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