Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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118 grandfather clock, crafted in Haverhill, made a lovely prize at the auction. But it was her son's things that caught the attention of the New York Times and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. Jon Gould was the nal companion to Andy Warhol. eir turbulent relationship was thought to be the most signicant of Warhol's many love aairs. Left behind were hundreds of black-and-white images of Gould, Warhol's most photographed subject. Skiing down glamorous mountains or walking, leather jacket–clad, down New York City streets, Gould is vibrant, beautiful, raw, and open. Nearly 3,000 registered bidders from more than 20 countries bid on these images and countless gifts to Gould from Warhol. A black- and-white image of Gould standing next to a carved-out heart in the snow went for $1,200. A shot of Gould lounging on Warhol's Montauk beach house lawn on throw pillows with Liza Minelli went for $1,100. "e photographs all did very well and found homes all over the world," says auction gallery manager Dan Meader—including some with North Shore connections that the auction house thought would stay close. A rare aluminum Warhol sculpture went for $43,000 and a nude sketch of Gould for $3,750. e most desired piece up for auction, Abstrac- tion—A Gift to Jon Gould, was one of Warhol's many signed gifts to Jon. is previously un- known Warhol piece is a deconstructed canvas, the bars broken, the cloth falling over, and some of it painted in gray, yellow, and red. But at "the eleventh hour," according to Meader, the family of Jon Gould pulled the sought-after piece and ve other items from the auction, apparently considering them too dear to part with. Warhol "was ghting for Jon's love and attention," says Meader, who spent all last sum- mer rooting around in the attic of the home when the family called him to handle Harriet Yet, collectors of works by Warhol, Jean- Michel Basquiat, and their contemporaries recently converged on this small town on the New Hampshire border. Last December, John McInnis Auctioneers on Main Street sold the estate of a prominent New England fam- ily—but there was a twist. In addition to the expected Yankee antiques, there were hun- dreds of items full of story, romance, tragedy, and loss. ese seekers of Pop Art found the large storefront of the auction house across the park- ing lot from a mural quoting Whittier, the city's literary son. ere, they may have read these words, and perhaps saw them in a new light: Far down the Vale My friend and I Beheld the old and quiet town; e swinging chain-bridge and, afar, e foam-line Of the harbor-bar When Harriet Woodsom Gould died in 2016 in her 90s, she left behind in the family home—located about where the Merrimack and Powwow Rivers meet—countless treas- ures, some dating back to the 1700s. She was, after all, a descendant of the town's early set- tlers, who established the 370-acre Woodsom Farm as early as 1790, making it the largest dairy farm in Essex County at one time. e K O N W N for its old mill buildings along the Merrimack River, a history of carriage making, and being home to 19th- century poet John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury is not typically associated with Andy Warhol's ashy Pop Art movement that dominated New York City in the 1960s. Some of the more captivating pieces were photographs of Gould paired with an object or piece of clothing.