Het gaat om het bekende work Shot Sage Blue Marilyn dat de Amerikaanse Pop Art-kunstenaar made in 1964. “Marilyn is the absolute hoogtepunt of American Pop Art in the ceiling of the American Dream”, alas Alex Rotter of the Christie’s curtaining house.
Momentel is the portrait still in hand of the Zwitserse stichting van Broer and together Thomas and Doris Amman. De opbrengst van de verkoop zal gaan naar “de verbetering van Kinderlevens overal ter wereld via gezondheids- en onderwijjprogramma’s”, so zegt het veilinghuis.
Thomas and Doris Ammann directed in 1977 Thomas Ammann Fine Art op, a gallery in het Zwitserse Zürich, which specialized in impressionistic, modern, naoorlogse en hedendaagse Kunstenaars. Na de dood van Thomas in 1993 bleef Doris aan het roer staan. Zij overleed last year.
‘Niagara’
Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is based on a promotional photo of the American actress Marilyn Monroe for the film Niagara uit 1953. “Het portrait van Marilyn by Andy Warhol is vandal zelfs nog known dan de originale foto uit de film Niagara van Henry Hathaway”, says Georg Frei, before the stichting Ammann. “The visual impact of the work that will remain in the new millennium of the impact.”
“Marilyn as vrouw is verdwenen; de schrikkelijke omstandigheden van haar leven en dood zijn vergeten”, aldus Frei. “All that is said is the mysterious idea that connects the hair with another mysterious idea of a lady’s name, the Mona Lisa.”
The veiling record for a work by Warhol is worth op 104.5 million dollars, for a period of time Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster). According to the ranking of the AFP office, the absolute record of the curtain for a work of art worth 450.3 million dollars. Before that, Christie’s sold the factory in November 2017 Salvator Mundi van Leonardo da Vinci.