DEAL: 'Warhol’s ‘Blue Marilyn’ Poised to Fetch $200 Million'

[SteveG]

why is this woman smiling?

Warhol’s ‘Blue Marilyn’ Poised to Fetch $200 M. Could Set a Record for One of Art History’s Most Expensive Artists
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wa...234622390/

In what may become one of the most expensive works of contemporary art ever to be sold at auction, a sixty-year-old portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol will be sold at Christie’s this May. Coming to a 20th-century art evening sale in New York with an estimate upon request, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) is expected to fetch a sum around $200 million. If it reaches expectations, the sale could nearly double Warhol’s current record of $105.4 million, set when his 1963 canvas Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold at Sotheby’s in 2013.

Measuring 3 feet square, the silkscreen painting depicts a press photo from Monroe’s 1953 film Niagara. The image is one Warhol used repeatedly in his work until his death in 1987. It derives from his “Shot Marilyn” portrait series, which Warhol produced after an incident at his downtown studio in 1964 when a visitor shot into and damaged a stack of canvases.
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The sale of the Warhol portrait marks another boost to the post-pandemic art market, as major, long-awaited consignments become available from the holdings of collectors from the Silent Generation. Before Thomas Ammann acquired the work in the 1970s, it belonged to New York publisher and storied collector S.I. Newhouse.

Warhol produced only five versions of the present painting; others remain in private hands of major collectors like American investors Peter Brant and Ken Griffin.

[Racer X]

so, he took someone else's image, and made it a painting. Photoshop can do that. We are all RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jonny]

What is a 'silkscreen painting'? It's a silkscreen.

[Racer X]

jonny wrote:
What is a 'silkscreen painting'? It's a silkscreen.

concert t-shirts.......

[ztirffritz]

Warhol is famous for popularizing 'pop culture'. He was an interesting character to put it mildly. His quote "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." has proven to be prescient. That he may not have actually ever said this oft attributed quote is really moot at this point.

The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is really fantastic. I highly recommend it for anyone passing through town.

[steve...]

Lots of reproduction prints available for considerably less.

Here's a 38" x 38" copy for $80 with free shipping.

[Lew Zealand]

How much for the NFT?

Gotta be at least 10x the raw item's worth, if I understand the imaginary NFT value market correctly.

Someone got $2B in altcoins rattling around in your floppy drive I could borrow? I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for those Dogecoins today.