Andy Warhol’s 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' is poised to be one of the most expensive artworks of all time when it goes up for auction next month. But how did it become the art world's hottest item?
waltzed through the Christie’s front atrium, where hiswas installed in 2013 prior to hitting the block. Koons currently holds the distinction of world’s most expensive living artist, but on this brisk day, he was a mere viewer, there to see a work that soon seems destined to go for many multiples of the
“Two hundred is a huge benchmark. It’s the highest reported estimate ever, it’s the highest estimate ever put on an artwork,” saidthe Christie’s chairman who’s overseeing the sale. “Could we have set more? You could always say more.” “Leon’s son Fred grew up with the painting, and when he heard about the sale, he said he wanted to put his head in the oven and turn the gas on,” said dealer and authenticatorPolsky can commiserate. The book, true to its title, tells the story of his own premature sale of a lesser Warhol in 2005.and the price had more than quadrupled. The Chicago collector Stefan Edlis cooked up a private agreement to sell thefor $80 million. Years after that, it looked like Cohen got the thing cheap.
This series has long been among the most cherished works to come out of the postwar canon. When Warhol first made the five works, they played directly into his obsessions with fame and the macabre, with iconography and identity, with art and mass production, mostly because he had found the perfect muse, one so recognizable at the time that immortalizing her on canvas was both a no-brainer and banal.
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