In under four minutes, Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk screen of Marilyn Monroe’s face, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” sold for about $195 million to an unknown buyer at Christie’s, making it the highest price achieved for any American work of art at auction.
‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,’ a 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen, sold for about $195 million at Christie’s in New York, making it the highest price achieved for any American work of art at auction. , NY; Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)NEW YORK — Maybe the image is not racy, like the one of Marilyn Monroe with her dress flying up in the movie “The Seven Year Itch,” but on Monday night, it became the priciest.
Monday’s sale kicked off a spring auction season in a city that has only begun to return to normal after two years of the coronavirus pandemic. Christie’s salesroom at Rockefeller Center was filled with the familiar faces of dealers and art advisers who clearly welcomed the opportunity to bid on blue-chip artworks in person again.
Before the sale, Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti reveled in the absence of guarantees, given the risky quality of flying without a net. “Like the old times,” he said. “Real sport.” The 36 works in the sale, which brought a total of $318 million , bore out the truism that top-quality works sell for top prices, however tumultuous the state of the world — be it a war overseas, a pandemic or a terrorist attack.
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