Warhol 'Blue' Marilyn Monroe Portrait Up For Auction For Estimated Record $200 Million

Andy Warhol stands in entrance of his double portrait of Marilyn Monroe on the Tate Gallery, Millbank. (Picture by PA Photos by way of Getty Photos)

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Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” portrait of Marilyn Monroe goes up for public sale in New York Monday for an anticipated $200 million.

If it really sells for that, Christie’s “Lot 36A” — the signed and dated (1964) acrylic and silkscreen ink-on-linen piece — will turn into the most costly Twentieth-century art work ever to promote at public sale. Picasso’s “Girls of Algiers” at present holds that honor. It offered for $179.4 million in 2015.

Christie’s has been projecting a picture of the art work, from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Basis Zurich, onto the facade of Rockefeller Heart in Manhattan since April 29 and can proceed to take action till Might 13.

The public sale file for a Warhol so far is the $104.5 million paid for “Silver Automotive Crash (Double Catastrophe)” in 2013.

Joan Robledo-Palop, a collector and CEO of Zeit Up to date Artwork within the metropolis, referred to as the pleasure over the sale “unprecedented.”

Alex Rotter, head of Twentieth and twenty first century artwork at Christie’s, has referred to as the portrait “probably the most important Twentieth century portray to come back to public sale in a era.”

Christie’s describes the work as having the “classical fantastic thing about the ‘Venus de Milo.’” (Picture by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos)

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The 40-by-40-inch work is a part of a collection of portraits the pop artist made from Monroe after her loss of life from a drug overdose in August 1962. They turned often known as the “Shot” collection after a customer to Warhol’s “Manufacturing unit” studio in Manhattan fired a gun at them, piercing the portraits, which have been later repaired.

Christie’s describes the work as having the “classical fantastic thing about the ‘Venus de Milo,’” and labels it “a trendy ’Mona Lisa′”

It credit Warhol with single-handedly cementing the “fable” of Monroe, because of the artist’s “distinctive capability to seize the common-or-garden fantastic thing about a world celebrity.”

The work is “Warhol’s final depiction of his final muse,” which highlights Monroe’s “full lips,”“voluminous curls” and “piercing deep blue eyes,” based on Christie’s.

The portrait might be certainly one of greater than a dozen main works being provided throughout a collection of New York spring gross sales on the high public sale homes within the subsequent weeks.