‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’, a sign that was made in 1964, two years after the tragic dood of the Hollywood icon, was sold in four minutes for prices of 195.04 million dollars in an overfull room at the home office of Christie’s in Manhattan “, aldus het veilinghuis in a personal report.
Het Schildij break daarmee het vorige record voor een work from the twintigste eeuw, Pablo Picasso’s ‘Vrouwen van Algiers’. In 2015, the sign went for 179.4 million dollars.
Warhol made several prints of Marilyn Monroe in 1964. ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is made from a series of identical portraits, made in different colors. Christie’s noemt het work een van the most important works of art of all times.