Christie’s in New York, organizer of the auction, has closed the sale of the work ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ at $195,040,000. The buyer is the American art dealer Larry Gagosian.
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Image ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ has been sold for $195,040,000 (184 million euros) and has become the most expensive plastic work of the 20th century sold in a auction in the world. It is about a portrait of Marilyn Monroe painted by the artist Andy Warhol in 1964
The buyer is the American art dealer Larry Gagosian
The auction took place at Christie’s in New York.
The final price was just under the $200 million that Christie’s had attributed to the work since announcing the painting’s sale a few weeks ago.
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