Crime & Safety

Andy Warhol Screen Print Stolen From College In OC: Report

Orange Coast College sought the public's help in finding an Andy Warhol piece displaying China's communist leader Mao Zedong this week.

An Orange County College sought the public's help in finding an Andy Warhol piece displaying China's communist leader Mao Zedong this week, the Los Angeles Times reported.
An Orange County College sought the public's help in finding an Andy Warhol piece displaying China's communist leader Mao Zedong this week, the Los Angeles Times reported. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — An Orange County College sought the public's help in finding an Andy Warhol piece displaying China's communist leader Mao Zedong this week, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Orange Coast College police were told of the missing screen prints last week after they were last seen in the Frank M. Doyle Art Pavilion, the report said.

The original Warhol painted titled "Mao" sold for $47.5 million in 2015, the newspaper reported. The estimated value of the 1972 screen print was not immediately known.

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