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created on: 10/03/2020
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Pietro Psaier (born 1936 or 1939, Italy - died December 26, 2004 in Sri Lanka) was an alleged Italian artist who produced Pop Art paintings and prints that mimicked and referenced those of Andy Warhol.
It is important to note that there is very little biographical information on Psaier, outside of a 1963 press release.
Many surmise that the identity of the artist was manufactured by nefarious art dealers, in order to boost the monetary value of inferior works.

In The Times on August 7, the Foundation and the Warhol Museum dismissed any connection between Psaier and Warhol, saying there was no mention of him in their archives. Foundation board member and former Warhol associate Vincent Fremont, who was at the Factory when Psaier was said to have been there, was quoted as saying he had never heard of him.
But in addition to the dozens - possibly hundreds - of works he has in storage, auctioneer John Nicholson has a wealth of papers, documents and photographs that together create a seemingly credible history, pointing not only to the existence of Pietro Psaier, but also to his close association with Warhol.

He further argues that Psaier's name may never have come up at the Factory because he would have been known there as 'Peter the Italian'.
Hoax or not, Psaier is certainly an enigma. Although there are several references to people who directly knew him, and at least two individuals who saw him and Warhol together, attempts to contact them have so far not borne fruit.


Born in 1936 near Rome, Italy, he spent a significant portion of his early adulthood designing cars for Enzo Ferrari.
Moving to Greenwich Village in the 1960s, the artist met Andy Warhol, with whom he struck up a friendship. Producing work in the 1970s on commission for various movie stars, the artist ran into financial trouble during the 1980s. In an effort to evade his debts, he purportedly fled to a rural part of Southeast Asia. A death certificate which surfaced in 2011, claims he died in Sri Lanka during the tsunami of December 26, 2004.
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on : 10/03/2020