Video: "Mao" Warhol valued at $ 10 million
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the auction at Sotheby's put up a painting "Mao", painted in 1973 by American artist Andy Warhol. Information about this was spread by the Reuters news agency.
According to Reuters, Warhol created a portrait of the ex-leader of the Celestial Empire, Mao Zedong, after American President Richard Nixon paid a visit to the United States in 1972. Sotheby's experts tentatively estimated the lot in the amount of 5.5 million to 7.5 million pounds, which is equivalent to $ 9 - $ 12.5 million.
Today Andy Warhol is considered one of the most influential figures in the art world of the 20th century and the founders of pop art. Among his works is a series of paintings depicting the leader of Mao Zedong. In 2011, actor Dennis Hopper sold one of these paintings for $ 300,000.
Sotheby's contemporary art auction will be held on 12 February. Several more expensive paintings will be put up for sale at this auction. According to experts, the most expensive painting at this auction will be the painting "The Wall", created by Gerhard Richter. Its auction price will start at $ 25 million.
Lovers of contemporary art will be able to compete for the right to own the painting by the British artist Lucien Freud "Head on a Green Sofa". The cost of a nude portrait of the artist's girlfriend Belinda is estimated at the start of the auction in the amount of $ 4 - $ 6 million. This canvas from the art world is considered one of the best works of Lucian Freud.
Among the most valuable trades of the current auction is the painting by Cy Twombly "Untitled (Rome)", for which the auctioneers plan to receive $ 8, 5 - $ 12 million.
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