A big party will celebrate Edie Sedgwick’s first art exhibition

Page Six learns that Andy Warhol’s small portal to New York City will briefly open on 23rd Street on Monday night.

We were only told that the auctioneer was organizing the first ever Edie Sedgwick art exhibition of all venues, the Chelsea Hotel.

They are also expecting a crowd in the city center, unlike any seen since the collapse of the Mercer Arts Center.

The hotel – where Warhol and his most famous “superstar” shared a room during the filming of “Chelsea Girl” – seemed dangerously close to closing during a seemingly endless series of renovations and re-ownerships that had lasted over a decade. So it seems a miracle that it is open to hosting a party for its former resident.

Punk god Danny Fields is reportedly expected, as are Sedgwick’s widower Michael Post, her brother John, and Johnny Ramone’s widow Linda. The list also includes the world’s great arts such as Simon de Pury, Roselee Goldberg and Vincent Fremont of the Andy Warhol Foundation, as well as Christy Turlington, Darren Aronofsky, Theodora Richards, Kristen McMenamy and Ryan McGuiness, among others.

Sedgwick usually fell asleep – apparently despite several warnings from Leonard Cohen – with candles burning in her room at the Chelsea Institution, and the once famous set fire to the room.

There will be 15 works at the exhibition, mainly pencil sketches. Its subjects are nudes (including a self-portrait), horses and other animals.

The items are put up for sale by RR Auctions and the event will be hosted by Bobby Livingston, senior vice president of the auction house. The online sale ends November 17th. Pieces are expected to be up to $ 40,000.

Sedgwick, played by Michelle Williams in the 2007 movie Factory Girl, appeared in over a dozen Warhol movies in 1965 and was considered his muse when they worked together.

She died of drug-related causes in 1971.