Must Have Been Some Good Drugs

In the "did ya know" category, here's one for coctail banter. Did you know that there are two bullet holes in Andy Warhol's 1972 screenprint of Chairmain Mao?

There are-and it didn’t deter a collector from buying it for $302,500 — 10 times the high presale estimate of $30,000 — at Christie’s in New York last month.

The reason the piece was coveted has to do with the shooter as much as it has to do with the artist and subject matter. During a wild night in the 1970s, Dennis Hopper got spooked by the picture and shot it twice. Warhol loved the results and annotated the holes with circles and the words “warning shot” and “bullet hole,” which made the work an unplanned collaboration.

Must have been some good drugs Dennis.