Autographed nude photo of Jackie Onassis found in Warhol collection

"For Andy, with enduring affection, Jackie Montauk"

An autographed photo of a nude Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been found by archivists searching through the thousands of collectibles gathered by late pop icon Andy Warhol.

And how did Warhol come to possess a naked poster of Jackie O signed, "For Andy, with enduring affection, Jackie Montauk"?

Matt Wrbican, who is overseeing the cumbersome project — and who along with other researchers authenticated the signature through handwriting comparisons — said Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol's Montauk beachfront estate.

Her second husband, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, hired a photographer  to take pictures of her skinny-dipping there. Which turns out to have been a mistake. It landed in the hands of porno publisher Larry Flynt, who turned it into a poster for his magazine, Hustler,

"Jackie O sent a copy — likely as a joke — to Warhol," Wrbican says.

"I really doubted it was her signature at first," he added. "But it really matches her writing."
 
The photo is one of the many items workers have uncovered as they sift through 610 cardboard boxes, filing cabinets and even a shipping container filled with what would be considered trash by most — but which could very well be treasure since it was collected by Warhol.

The archivists, hired with $600,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation and several other smaller grants, have six years to comb through everything from taxi cab receipts to fan mail, meticulously cataloging, photographing and, when possible, researching the often bizarre items before entering them into a database.

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