Warhol's wonder home on sale for $50m

Artist Andy Warhol’s wonder home on the east end of New York’s Long Island is on the market for a record 50 million dollars (£35m).

The late Prince of Pop Art’s secluded estate in the exclusive Hamptons offers privacy, coastal views and is set in 130 acres of undeveloped land.

Dubbed ‘‘Eothen’’ - Greek for ‘‘toward the East’’ - the main house, dating from 1931, includes seven bedrooms and multiple bathrooms and fireplaces, as well as four additional houses, a three-car garage and a large stable.

Guests over the years included Mick Jagger and Jacqueline Onassis.

The Montauk estate is being sold by film-maker Paul Morrissey, Warhol’s collaborator on several movies, with whom he bought the property overlooking the Atlantic for 220,000 dollars (£157,000) in the 1970s.

The estate agent’s brochure says it is ‘‘unparalleled in its privacy, natural beauty and ocean views’’.

The asking price would be a record for the notoriously expensive region, where comedian Jerry Seinfeld bought singer Billy Joel’s property in nearby East Hampton for 32 million dollars (£22m) last year.

It is also worth considerably more that any of the works of the artist, who died in 1987.

Fellow multimillionaires in eastern Long Island include Steven Spielberg, Calvin Klein, Sean Combs, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Gere and Paul Simon.

An estate agent’s spokesman said of the property: ‘‘It’s like you’re in the middle of a national park - and out here in the Hamptons, that’s unheard of.’’