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Dorothy Podber, who died on February 9 aged 75, was a performance artist best known for turning up at Andy Warhol's studio and putting a bullet through a stack of his silk-screen paintings of Marilyn Monroe.

"We were Zen Communists, into aesthetic communality," Name explained. Dorothy Podber was also a member of a circle known as the "amphetamine rapture group" (other members included Rotten Rita, the Mayor, the Duchess and the Sugar Plum Fairy), and kept a bowl of methamphetamine on her coffee table.

In 1989 one of the paintings, Shot Red Marilyn, sold for $4 million, the highest price ever paid for a Warhol at the time. They are now said to be worth around $17 million apiece.