A chain-smoker, he suffered from chronic bronchitis and lived alone in the house crowded with furniture, framed paintings stacked in piles against every wall and upright surface.

Books and magazines, paintings stacked against the walls.

Certainly the servants had been surprised to discover a door behind the paintings stacked against it, despite the fact that the door was clearly visible in bright lantern light.

All but this one sustained bullet holes that year when a woman entered Warhol's Manhattan studio, aimed a gun at his forehead, missed and hit the four paintings stacked on the floor.

Aside from a couch, chairs and table and a sleeping loft, Mr. Briseno's two-room studio is dominated by paintings hanging, leaning, stacked against the walls.

There were paintings stacked at the side of the room - whether finished or not, she did not know - but the thing that was most touching, the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window, obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest.

Dorothy Podber (1932-2008), a friend of Factory photographer Billy Name, saw the recently completed paintings stacked against one another at the studio and asked Warhol if she could shoot them.

But other rooms and corridors are crowded with thousands of other paintings stacked against walls six or seven deep.

The basement was filled with framed and unframed paintings, stacked against the walls.

Recently he paced about his living room in Midwood, Brooklyn, surrounded by paintings stacked along the wall.