Andy Warhol

Warhol's "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" beat the record price for an American artwork at auction set by a Basquiat skull painting in 2017.

He died in 1987 of a heart attack.) A Christie’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday. (Warhol himself was badly injured in a 1968 shooting.

Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' has set a record as the highest-priced American artwork sold at auction. The iconic silkscreen sold for $195 million.

While the final price of Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is pretty mind-bending, it’s peanuts compared to the most expensive 20th-century painting ever sold: Willem De Kooning’s Interchange sold for $300 million in 2015. Andy Warhol’s Shot Safe Blue Marilyn has just set a record as the highest-priced American artwork ever sold at auction. He even went so far as to send letters to Hollywood casting studios to ask for pictures that he couldn’t get anywhere else.

An iconic Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe has gone for $195 million, making it the most expensive work by a U.S. artist sold at auction.

The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs. 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 place. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night.

The painting was the final lot of Christie's single-owner evening sale The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann, which featured 36 lots and totalled $317.8 ...

Proceeds from the entire sale will be generously donated by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation to benefit charities providing urgent medical and educational services to children. Additional highlights from the sale include record prices for six artists. The sale attracted participation from bidders in 29 countries, with 68% of lots selling above the high estimate.

Andy Warhol's 1964 silk-screen of the actress called Shot Sage Blue Marily” sold to an unknown buyer at Christie's in New York.

He added: ‘We did sell the most expensive painting of the 20th century. The sale of the portrait set a new record for the highest amount an American artwork has ever been sold for. It went under the hammer in New York yesterday and sold for a huge £157.8 million to a mystery buyer.

The Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol fetched US$ 195 million on Monday at the auction house Christie's in New York. The 1964 silk-screen portrait is ...

Meanwhile, the most expensive Warhol painting is ”Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)”, which fetched US$ 104.5 million in 2013. Standing alongside Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and Picasso's Les Demoiselle d'Avignon, Warhol's Marilyn is one of the greatest paintings of all time.” The nickname was born when a visitor to Warhol's “Factory” studio in Manhattan fired a gun at them, piercing the portraits which were later repaired.

Andy Warhol's iconic portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe set against a sage blue background, called Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, has become the most expensive ...

The Red Shot Marilyn was bought by Greek billionaire Philip Niarchos in 1994 at Christie’s for $3.63 million. In 1967, the Blue Shot Marilyn was bought by business magnate Peter Brant, who was just 20 at the time. on which it is based, bears witness to her undiminished visual power in the new millennium. In 1998, the Orange Shot Marilyn was bought for $17.3 million before being sold to American businessman Kenneth C Griffin for a price rumoured to be in the realm of $250 million. The Shot Marilyns consisted of four canvases, each square measuring 40 inches, of a painting of Marilyn Monroe, each shot through the forehead by a bullet. Shot Sage Blue Marilyn was part of the Shot Marilyns series created by Warhol in 1964.

Unlike the Christie's retread, the Pop Master's 1962 “Green Marilyn” was crudely silk-screened, with blotches that convey the decay of a fallen star.

The 1964 Marilyns were also offered in multiple hues, but they had none of the messes that had added a hint of decay to Warhol’s first Marilyns, making them look handmade and heartfelt. As “mere” repetitions of the 1962 works, the retreads invoked the replication that powers consumer culture. He and his assistants referred to the 1964 retreads as “Dead Paintings.” (In addition to the Marilyns, Warhol was being paid to repeat the Campbell’s Soup paintings that had first won him attention in 1961.) But Warhol’s move toward repetition made a kind of sense, artistically: How better to talk about popular culture and its commodification than by letting your art plunge right inside? You could say that in 1964, with the viewer-friendly repeats of his Marilyns, Warhol was embracing the movement’s new popularity, making works that were not just Pop Art but also truly popular art. If I were a collector — in 1964, or 2022 — I’d certainly prefer to have one of those over my sofa than one of the sad, tough versions from 1962. The original Marilyns from 1962 had been strange, distressed images, crudely silk-screened to leave blotches and blank spots that convey the decay and distress of the fallen movie star — it’s said Warhol conceived them right after Marilyn’s death, though there’s reason to believe that’s a myth.

As well as an auction record for a 20th century artwork, it was also a new high for any American picture when it was knocked down to dealer Larry Gagosian ...

The work at Christie’s was the one not pierced by the bullet. The previous auction record for a Warhol was the $94m (£61.5m) for Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold at Sotheby’s in 2013, while the previous high for a piece of 20th century art was Pablo Picasso's 1955 Women of Algiers sold for $160m (£108.1m) in 2015. Back in 1989, Christie's sold Shot Red Marilyn for $4.01m, a painting that in 1994 was sold again for $3.6m. Shot Orange Marilyn from the series sold at Sotheby's in 1998 for $17.3m and is thought to have since been sold privately for a sum close to the $200m which Christie’s had hoped for its sage blue version.

Writer-director Andrew Rossi uses Andy Warhol's own words to offer insight into the artist's personal life for the Netflix docu-series.

“You can get so much more meaning from his paintings when you think of Andy as a queer figure, who is looking for his place in the world,” Rossi says. And there are still issues until this day of looking at the work in connection to this queer identity and this sidelining the work that is overtly about queer desire. The series uses Warhol’s own words — and a version of his voice, as he provides “narration” with the help of AI technology and readings from actor Bill Irwin — to offer a side of Warhol little seen (or heard) outside of his circle of collaborators, employees, superstars and hangers-on at the famed Factory in New York.

One of Andy Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe is now the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at auction.

"This sale demonstrates the pervasive power of Andy Warhol as well as the lasting legacy that he continues to leave behind in the art world, popular culture, and society." "The record-breaking sale of Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn from the Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann is a testament to the strength, the vibrancy, and the overall excitement of the art market today," Rotter said. As expected, an iconic Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe has set a new record, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at an auction.

Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side, said “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” is “an exceptional painting” partly ...

Warhol is shot in the summer of 1968 one month before Basquiat is hit by a car. “The Warhol Basquiat collaboration is so important for both of them. For Basquiat, he’s finally reaching the inner sanctum of the art world with exhibitions abroad and in New York, with people like Mary Boone. When he meets Warhol, he is already this hot, contemporary artist on the scene. “Warhol is white. Warhol died in 1987 and Basquiat in 1988. “It’s a healthy competition. Basquiat and Warhol began collaborating and competing in 1982. We see this in his commercial illustrations of the 1950s and 1960s for I. Miller and Glamour magazine. Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side, said “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” is “an exceptional painting” partly because of when the Pittsburgh-born artist painted it. The yellow and the green just glow together.” The Andy Warhol Museum does not have an acquisition fund to buy artwork. By 1964, Warhol is refining his silkscreen process,” Beck said Tuesday.

Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' made double history last night as the most costly painting ever sold by a US artist.

Speaking on behalf of the judges, Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund, said, “An abundance of applications to be Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 shows the creativity and resilience of museums right around the country, despite the immense challenges of the last two years. Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for the Museum of the Year prize. The judges will visit each of the finalists to help inform their decision-making.