Andy Warhol Net Worth: What was Andy Warhol worth when he died?

Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer recognized as an iconic trendsetter in the visual art movement, pop art.

Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the United States as the fourth child of his parents Andrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr) and Julia Warhola Zavacká.

Andy Warhol’s parents were emigrants from Mikó, Austria-Hungary. His father Andrej Warhola had worked in a coal mine. He was raised alongside two elder brothers Pavol Warhola and John Warhola.

Andy Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945 and later enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where he studied commercial art. He later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design in 1949.

Andy Warhol has had some excellent works to his name including the silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), as well as the multimedia events, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Andy Warhol’s works are included some of the most expensive paintings ever sold, with the highest price ever paid for his painting being $105 million for a 1963 serigraph titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster).

Andy Warhol has also written several books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He died in his sleep from cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58 in Manhattan, New York following a gallbladder surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, United States

Andy Warhol was buried next to his mother and father at the  St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery.

What was Andy Warhol worth when he died?

Andy Warhol had a net worth of $220 million dollars at the time of his death.