$50 Million Warhol Stars in Christie's Contemporary Art Sale
A rare early Andy Warhol painting expected to fetch up to $50 million, the first picture by Warhol ever to be shown in a museum, headlines Christie's incredible Contemporary Art sale in New York on Nov. 10. The artist's Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), dated 1962 (above), is one of several multimillion-dollar Warhols on offer in the eye-popping sale. The next most expensive artwork is Roy Lichtenstein's Ohhh...Alright..., dated 1964, expected to fetch in the region of $40 million and one of a number of Lichtensteins on offer, again with several carrying multimillion-dollar estimates. Both seminal paintings "literally changed the course of art history," Christie's notes. In third place price-wise is Gerhard Richter's 1982 oil on canvas Zwei Kerzen, estimated at $12 million – $16 million, followed by Jeff Koons' steel sculpture Balloon Flower (Blue), 1995 - 2000, also estimated at $12 million – $16 million. Following that in the $9 million – $15 million range are two works by Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Gray) and No 18 (Brown and Black on Plum). Oligarchs and oil sheikhs, prepare your paddles.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ken Oct 26th 2010 9:12AM
Paintings like this remind me of the "Murphy Brown" episode where she arranged a gallery showing for her friend who painted ceiling murals. Because the art was on the ceiling, the gallery put out poles with velvet ropes around the space underneath it. The patrons all started admiring the placement of the poles and ropes thinking that was the artwork and Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) was constantly telling them to look upward instead. If I had $50 million, I'd rather "invest" in aiding starving Haitians.
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