Warhol?s ?Blue Marilyn? Poised To Fetch US$200M And Set New Records
Pop artist Andy Warhol?s blue silkscreen portrait of Marilyn Monroe hits the auction block this spring with an asking price of US$200 million, poised to become the most expensive 20th-century artwork.
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Image: Christie’s
For ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’, Warhol took a photo from Henry Hathaway’s 1953 ‘Niagara’ film and then presented Monroe with a pink face, ruby lips, yellow hair and blue eye shadow against a sage-blue backdrop.
Christie’s chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art, Alex Rotter, remarked that the artwork is one of the greatest paintings of all time ? alongside Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Picasso’s Les Demoiselle d’Avignon.
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“The most significant painting to come to auction in a generation, Andy Warhol’s Marilyn is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop and the promise of the American Dream encapsulating optimism, fragility, celebrity and iconography all at once.” Rotter adds that the Marilyn piece supersedes 20th-century art and culture, going beyond the genre of portraiture in America.
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Image: Christie’s
For ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’, Warhol took a photo from Henry Hathaway’s 1953 ‘Niagara’ film and then presented Monroe with a pink face, ruby lips, yellow hair and blue eye shadow against a sage-blue backdrop.
Christie’s chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art, Alex Rotter, remarked that the artwork is one of the greatest paintings of all time ? alongside Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Picasso’s Les Demoiselle d’Avignon.
READ MORE: Christie?s Auctions Hubert De Givenchy?s Collection: An Art & Furniture Collector?s Dream
“The most significant painting to come to auction in a generation, Andy Warhol’s Marilyn is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop and the promise of the American Dream encapsulating optimism, fragility, celebrity and iconography all at once.” Rotter adds that the Marilyn piece supersedes 20th-century art and culture, going beyond the genre of portraiture in America.
For more auctions reads, click here.
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