MSCHF is selling 1,000 Andy Warhol sketches for $250, but 999 of them are forgeries
The group's latest effort skewers exclusivity as a metric for artistic value

MSCHF, the group responsible for giving us everything from evil and holy shoes and Sunday Chick-fil-A sandwiches to an astrology-based investment app and AI-dreamed foot pics has now set its sights on the art world with an Andy Warhol sketch auction.
The catch—because of course there’s a catch—is that MSCHF sold 1,000 versions of a Warhol sketch where the single original piece was mixed in with 999 forgeries.
Each of the (now sold out) sketches went for $250 while the original “Fairies” piece is currently worth an estimated $20,000. Museum Of Forgeries created in its own “Possibly Real Copy Of ‘Fairies’ By Andy Warhol,” an exact forgery of the real sketch, and promises that “any record of which piece within the set is the original has been destroyed.”
On the website, MSCHF writes that “the capital-A Art World is more concerned with authenticity than aesthetics” while “paradoxically, for artists, successful merching down an object [equals] consistent, increased revenue.”