The Wild Story of Warhol’s Brigitte Bardot: Playboy, Goddess, Legendary Romance | Sotheby’s

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[00:00:00]So many have tried to pry her from my fingers and was just not willing to give her up. Well, I think she speaks for herself. She's extraordinarily beautiful. The passion of her lips, the piercing stare that in a way looks back into time.

[00:00:21]She allowed my father to look back into an era that had passed. I think is poetically romantic.

[00:00:37]I'm Gunnar Saxs. My father had a legendary relationship with an icon of history, Bridget Baldo.

[00:00:45]>> Brrijit Bardau, the young French star, is also quite easy on the eye.

[00:00:49]>> I've lived with this piece for my entire memory. My earliest memories were probably when I was 13, 14. I had some great celebrations under her watchful eye. I remember her hanging in St. Maritz in a legendary apartment in the tower of the palace hotel. Then it moved to she hung in our living room. Warhole was becoming famous. And I remember it's really cool that he painted my dad and Brit.

[00:01:20]My father was an exceptional human being. He was part of a small group of a dozen original playboys. They had nothing to do with what the term kind of implies today. They were distinguished gentlemen of means, elegant, stylish, and became famous for their lifestyle.

[00:01:41]They all had a passion for beautiful women, and Breijit was the crown jewel.

[00:01:48]My father and Bardaux had a relationship that was choreographed spontaneity. He flew over her house and dropped a thousand roses throughout his Louis Vuitton luggage and dove into the sea only to emerge to propose to her.

[00:02:10]They were a source of myth, legend, love, all of which kind of culminated in fame and capture. It was an extraordinary time. Their relationship was a true viv, something that seems to be lost a little bit in the rat race of today.

[00:02:32]But it was fleeting. It ended in 69 and then he married my mother and that was lucky for me. My mom is one of the most tolerant people I know.

[00:02:50]And um she knew she couldn't change the past. She accepted it gracefully. And Bardau and my father had a friendship and a letter exchange for as long as he lived. I believe my father asked Andy if he would paint a set of Bardos for him because it did capture that era in his heart.

[00:03:17]This painting not only immortalizes a person, it immortalizes an era that represents untethered living. The piece was super meaningful to my father because it was, you know, an emblem of his youth, an artifact of a time gone by, but a time that defined Bardau. It defined my father. It defined Warhole.

[00:03:43]It was, you know, a mythical time.