He Said He Said: Malanga vs. Chamberlain
In today’s NY Times, a story on a lawsuit brought by Gerald Malanga (ex-Warhol studio assistant) against sculptor John Chamberlain. Malanga claims that a painting Chamberlain claims was a Warhol, and sold as such, is a fake, and that it doesn’t even belong to Chamberlain. The painting is “315 Johns.”
Malanga claims “he and two friends cranked out the Chamberlain canvases themselves in 1971 in a studio in Great Barrington, Mass., as a homage to Warhol a year after Mr. Malanga left Warhol’s Factory in Manhattan.”
Controversy seems to surround this mysterious and evasive group. For more information regarding Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Joe Simon and the growing backlash against the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Inc have a look at myandywarhol.com