Video: Andy Warhol's silkscreens sold for $ 63 million
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Warhol is considered the king of pop art, and the silkscreen "Men in Her Life" is the second most expensive painting by this artist ever sold at auction. Leading in value among sold at auction works by Warhol is the painting "Crash of the Green Car", which went under the hammer for $ 71.7 million in 2007. But, according to unofficial data, an unknown buyer bought the painting "Eight Elvis" privately in 2009 for more than $ 100 million.
In addition to Andy Warhol's silk-screen printing, according to The New York Times, a self-portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat valued at $ 4.5 million and a sculpture by Takashi Murakami "Miss Co2", which was sold for $ 6.8 million, were exhibited at the auction. the same auction set records for the price of works by Rudolf Stingel, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Cindy Sherman. Not without disappointment at the auction - the "Mechanical Pig" by the American artist Paul McCarthy and the work of Jeff Koons were not sold contrary to expectations.
In total, $ 137 million was earned through the auction, which was a record result for Phillips de Pury. And on November 9, 2010, a huge bottle of Coca-Cola from Andy Warhol was put up for auction at Sotheby's. It was estimated at $ 25 million.
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