The Dayton Art Institute holds one of the Warhol portraits of Means in its collection.

Sotheby's officials said they hoped that seeing the two Warhol portraits displayed together, as they once had been, would cause a stir.

The sale also included five Warhol portraits from the mid-1970's series called "Ladies and Gentleman," images of transvestites and drag queens.

Even in the pre-Botox freeze-smiles of many Warhol portraits, you get the message that the artist did not love all subjects equally.

Some guests, like Mr. Geldzahler, saw their own Warhol portraits hanging in the museum.

Warhol portraits of Schnabel have been published in three catalogues accompanying exhibitions in Europe, Japan and Australia.

Serving as her studio is a converted tobacco barn with soaring ceilings, Warhol portraits of D.V.F., plantation chairs and a twig bed.

Two years later, the Warhol portrait she commissioned turned her into a Pop Art Mona Lisa.

No, not money but an Andy Warhol portrait of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.

She described the painting as "a typical Warhol portrait" that used a Polaroid snapshot to provide realistic coloring for silk screening.