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Christie's auction where Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe sold for record $195M was 'frenzy of bidders'

Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn has gone under the hammer for $195 million, becoming the most expensive work by an American artist sold at auction and the most expensive piece of 20th-century art ever sold. Christie's said an unnamed buyer, believed to be American art dealer Larry Gagosian, purchased Warhol's Marilyn 1964 silk-screen for $195 million. Monday's auction at …

Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’ auction nabs $195M; most for US artist

NEW YORK — Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. 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 …

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait sold for record USD 195 million

A Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol was sold at $195 million at the auction house Christie's in New York on Monday. Warhol's painting received the highest price for any American work of art sold at auction 'One of the greatest paintings of all time' "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" by the pop artist "is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop," …

Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches record-setting $195 million at auction

“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” produced in 1964 two years after the death of the glamourous Hollywood star, sold for exactly $195.04 million, including fees, in just four minutes in a crowded room at Christie’s headquarters in Manhattan New York: An iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe by American pop art visionary Andy Warhol went under the hammer for $195 million Monday …

Warhol's famed 'Marilyn' silk-screen sells for record $195 million at auction

Pop artist Andy Warhol's famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at auction on Monday, a record for a work by an American artist sold at auction. In this file photo taken on April 29, 2022 a man looks at Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' during Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art press preview at …

Sold for $195 million, Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ sets new auction record