Farrah Fawcett left this Andy Warhol silkscreen to the University of Texas.
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Actor Ryan O’Neal is butting heads with the University of Texas over an iconic silkscreen of Farrah Fawcett done by Andy Warhol — and valued at $30 million.
The university believes the Farrah silkscreen, one of two made by Warhol in 1980, is “missing” from the artwork the “Charlie’s Angels” star bequeathed to her alma mater when she died from cancer in 2009 at the age of 62.
It even hired a private detective to track the silk-screen down, according to a report on “Good Morning America.”
O’Neal, Fawcett’s longtime love interest, says the silk-screen was “given to him by Farrah” and that he owns it outright.
He also hasn’t been shy about showing it off on TV.
It could be clearly seen over the bed of his Malibu beach house on last week’s premiere of “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals,” the OWN reality show on which O’Neal stars with his daughter, Tatum.
It was Tatum, according to “GMA,” who tipped University of Texas officials off to the “missing” Farrah silk-screen in her just-published book, “Found: A Daughter’s Journey Home.”
“On every wall, there are pictures of us and the rest of the family in our golden days,” she wrote. “The original poster from ‘Paper Moon,’ Andy Warhol’s portrait of Farrah.”
O’Neal, who was not named in Fawcett’s will, says there’s no issue here — that the silk-screen is not “missing” and that he owes nothing to the university.
“The portrait that Mr. O’Neal has is the Warhol that was given to him by Farrah,” O’Neal’s publicist, Arnold Robinson, told The Post yesterday via e-mail.
“Mr. O’Neal has not been contacted by the University of Texas regarding this matter,” he said.
“When Ms. Fawcett’s will was executed, the University signed a document with the estate stipulating that they had received everything that they were entitled to per Ms. Fawcett’s will.
“All of Farrah’s wishes expressed in her will have been fulfilled by the estate.”
The other Farrah silk-screen hangs in the university’s Blanton Museum of Art on the school’s campus in Austin.
University officials would not confirm that they’re inquiring into the “missing” silk-screen.
“The Blanton Museum and the University of Texas have no comment as to the reports currently circulating about Mr. O’Neal and a second portrait of Farrah,” said Kathleen Brady Stimpert, the museum’s PR director.
The University’s p.r. director, Anthony de Bruyn, added that the university “does not wish to offer comment at this time.”