When the auction was announced earlier this year, it was estimated the Warhol painting could sell for as much as $200 million.
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The 1964 silkscreen image shows Monroe in vibrant close-up — hair yellow, eyeshadow blue and lips red — on a rich blue background. It's also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place.
The Warhol sale unseated the previous record holder and another modern master, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose 1982 painting “Untitled” of a skull-like face sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s in 2017.
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It’s a piece of crap to foll rich people and it works….I’m speechless …………… 185 000 000.00$ ……WTF IS WRONG HERE …..2 MUCH MONEY…THAT WOULD BUY 18 MEDICAL CLINICS NOW THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU COUD BE PROUD….
TODAY IN THE WORLD A GOOD SAMARITAN GAVE AWAY 180 MILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD 18 MEDICAL HEALTH CLINICS…..
Exactly!!
Oh and another thing….Andy was no artist…CRAP…CRAP….CRAP….
Andy Warhol is one of those guys who wishes he could paint, but can’t. He is a talentless unskilled wannabe. Just look at the Marilyn painting. It looks like a six-year-old did it.
andy warhol is dead, he’s not wishing anything…
Waste of money. What we should do is stop paying or supporting company execs or whoever just wastes money like this?
paranoia (2013) u.s. thriller, drama: ‘(…) picasso used to say: a good artist copies, an outstanding one steals (…) there is nothing left to come up with. always something, you steal someone (…)’ 😆😆😆
It’s worth that much, because it might be worth more later on…