Pre-sale estimates for "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" went as high as $200 million. The auctioneers have described the portrait as "one of the best of all time."
The Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol fetched US$ 195 million on Monday at the auction house Christie s in New York. The 1964 silk-screen portrait is one in a series of portraits that the artist made of Marilyn Monroe, following her death. It was held in the collection of Swiss art dealers Thomas and Doris Ammann.
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 …