NEW YORK — It was 1977, and Andy Warhol was at work on his “Athletes” series, portraits of top sports personalities who, he felt, were gaining cultural prominence just like “the movie stars of yesterday.” One of them was then the star running back of the Buffalo Bills: O.J. Signed by both men, the portrait is billed by the auction …
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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 …
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," …