Record price for Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait
0Record price for Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait
One of the most important representatives of the pop art movement, painter Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portraits, found a buyer for a record price. Portrait of Monroe becomes the most expensive artwork of the 20th century
"Shot Sage Blue Marilyn", one of Andy Warhol's 1964 works featuring the portrait of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe, is up for auction.
At the auction held at Christie's auction house in New York, the work was sold for 195 million dollars, or approximately 2 billion 945 million Turkish Liras, including taxes.
Warhol's work became the second most expensive piece of art in the world, after Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi", which sold for $450 million.
The work was made using a serial printing technique called screen printing, shortly after Monroe's death in 1962.
The portraits are based on Monroe's photograph featured in the promotion of the 1953 movie "Niagara."
Warhol produced several versions of Monroe's portrait in different colors.
Proceeds from the sale of the work will be donated to charity foundations for children.