Dorinda Medley as soon as went to an all-night celebration hosted by Peter Beard — no less than, it was an all-night celebration for the famously hard-partying artist.
“I went to a celebration at his home, most likely 15 years in the past, and I left at like 1 [a.m.],” the “Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis” star mentioned throughout a tour by way of Zoom of her Berkshires mansion, organized by the Museum of Arts and Design. “I got here again for brunch at 11 [a.m.] and I mentioned, ‘Peter, you’re sporting the identical factor from final night time!’ And he mentioned, ‘No, I’m nonetheless up from final night time.’ And he was superb!”
She added, “He was a fantastic artist, however he was additionally such a fantastic liver from an period there’ll by no means be once more.”
In the course of the tour, a part of the museum’s COVID-inspired digital programming, artwork collector Medley confirmed off one in all Beard’s well-known mixed-media pictures that includes a zebra, which hangs in her lounge.
The photographer, who had dementia, disappeared from his Montauk residence on March 31. His stays have been found in close by woods on Sunday. He was 82.