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Andy Warhol artwork may have been thrown out in Dutch town hall revamp

Maashorst council says print of Queen Beatrix from 1985 series Reigning Queens probably taken with the rubbish

Maashorst town hall on Thursday confessed that a rare silkscreen print by Warhol, who died in 1987, was among 46 valuable artworks that were “most likely” taken away with the bins during extensive renovation work last year. The town hall said the works, including a 1980s Warhol silkscreen print of the then Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, were part of a collection from the borough of Uden, which merged with others three years ago to form Maashorst. “It’s most likely that the artworks were accidentally taken away with the rubbish,” Maashorst town hall said after receiving a report from an independent investigations agency it had hired to find out what had happened.

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