PHAIDON (publisher of the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne Collection) provides a timely art anecdote among its books on artist Andy Warhol: Presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Warhol’s factory in April 1981, with the idea to commission an image of his Trump Tower, then under construction.

Warhol wrote in his diary that Trump was “a butch guy,” and while Trump did not commission an artwork during their meeting, “I’m going to do some paintings [of Trump Tower] anyway and show them to them.”

Warhol went on to create a series of gold, black and silver screenprints of the skyscraper, based on photos of architectural models of Trump Tower.

“Mr Trump was very upset that it wasn’t color-coordinated,” Warhol wrote in an August 1981 diary entry, adding, “I think Trump’s sort of cheap, I get that feeling.”

Ultimately, Trump rejected Warhol’s Trump Tower series and in January 1984, Warhol wrote, “I still hate the Trumps because they never bought the paintings I did of Trump Tower.”