The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museum of Art - the three Pittsburgh institutions that all had a hand in the project - revealed the story this week in three news releases that included some of the images.
Those three images of an altered Botticelli's Venus, a Warhol self-portrait, and a Campbell's soup can - of 28 that were found on the disks - were enough to excite Warhol fanatics around the world over the possibility that something - anything - new by the King of Pop Art had been revealed.
They were created on Warhol's Commodore Amiga computer in 1985 and included versions of some of his other most iconic images such as a banana and Marilyn Monroe, neither of which have been released yet, and may never be.
A man who worked with the now-defunct Amiga World magazine - which did a story in January 1986 about Warhol and his use of the Amiga computer - said he "doesn't think Warhol actually made a lot of those images".
While it might be easy to think that new computer images by Warhol could quickly be turned into revenue for the museum, Wrbican said that even if Warhol did create them, it was not so easy to begin printing them.
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1496909/sleuths-find-digital-images-hiding-andy-warhols-old-computer
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