Warhol's famed 'Marilyn' silk-screen sells for record $170M at auction
Andy Warhol's famed silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $170 million at auction Monday, a record for work by an American artist.
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Andy Warhol's famed silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $170 million at auction Monday, a record for work by an American artist.
Warhol made a series of portraits of the actress following her death in 1962
By Javier Otazu New York, May 10 (EFE).- A famous Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe has fetched $195 million at Christie’s, breaking the world auction record for the most expensive 20th-century work. However, the 1964 artwork that has since turned into a globally recognizable icon did not meet the auction house estimates of $200 …
NEW YORK - Pop artist Andy Warhol's famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe sold for US$195 million (S$271 million) at auction on Monday (May 9), a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction. Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is one in a series of portraits Warhol made of the actress following her death in...
A Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol was sold at $195 million (€185 million) at the auction house Christie's in New York on Monday, according to DW. The 1964 silk-screen portrait is one in a series of portraits that the artist made of Monroe, following