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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."
On the day Diego Maradona's football jersey fetched a record sum at Sotheby's London, DW's Brenda Haas went to the auction house's Cologne branch to watch her first auction.
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